The only thing getting clearer in Hunter Biden’s case is the stench

Cut through Delaware US Attorney David Weiss’ evasions and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s posturing, and it looks like both of them are to blame for Hunter Biden skating irrevocably on the most serious tax charges he should’ve faced.

Weiss chose the Friday before the long holiday weekend to publicly admit 1) he never had the power to charge Hunter for most of his alleged crimes; 2) the Joe Biden-appointed US attorneys for DC and Southern California (who did have the power) refused, and 3) to get the power, he needed Garland to make him a special prosecutor.

He never said he had asked for it, though.

And Garland has dodged completely, only denouncing all the questions about this blatant miscarriage of justice as unpatriotic attacks on the Justice Department.

Did Weiss ask?

The whistleblowers say he claimed he had, but got turned down.

If so, was that by Garland or some subordinate?

Did Garland know that key US attorneys had refused to indict Hunter?

Weiss also said he never had the power to make Attorney General Merrick Garland a special prosecutor.

Or did he not want to know?

We do know that no charges ever got filed in DC before the statute of limitations kicked in, shielding Hunter from prosecution over his nonpayment of taxes on his Burisma windfall.

Whistleblower testimony reveals that Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf shut down all lines of investigation that pointed toward Joe Biden’s possible involvement as well as interfering with efforts to gather more evidence on Hunter Biden.

And the plea deal Weiss offered the First Son will keep him out of prison on the rest — unless the courts, as they should, refuse to OK it.

At least as important, whistleblower testimony indicates that one of Weiss’ top aides, Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf, during the Trump years repeatedly shut down all lines of investigation that pointed toward Joe Biden’s possible involvement as well as interfering with efforts to gather more evidence on Hunter.

Was Weiss aware of that?

And what’s his explanation for his office’s failure to take up ex-Hunter-partner Tony Bobulinski’s offer to provide evidence?

When Garland waxes furious over claims that Justice doesn’t “treat like cases alike,” he must be comparing the Hunter case only to other investigations of top Democrats and their families.

Then again, “you should be used to this reek by now” isn’t much of defense.