Special Counsel Report on Hunter Biden Denounces President’s Criticism of Case

David C. Weiss, the special counsel who spent years investigating Hunter Biden, criticized President Biden for making “baseless accusations” about his inquiry that threatened “the integrity of the justice system as a whole” in a final report made public on Monday.

“The president’s characterizations are incorrect based on the facts in this case, and on a more fundamental level, they are wrong,” Mr. Weiss wrote.

His inquiry had been a subject of fierce debate until the president issued a broad pardon that ended the case against his son, saying that the prosecution was the result of “raw politics.”

A jury in Wilmington, Del., found Hunter Biden guilty of three felony counts last June for lying on a federal firearms application. He also pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges in Los Angeles in September for falsifying records and failing to file returns. The time span of his tax crimes included both a period when he was addicted to crack cocaine and after he became sober.

In his report, Mr. Weiss pushed back against criticism, largely from Democrats, that the case against Mr. Biden was unwarranted or tainted by political motives.

The report acted as a pointed rejoinder to the president. Mr. Weiss, citing judicial rulings that found that the case had been fairly brought, used his final words on the long-running investigation to defend his work and denounce the president’s characterizations.