Attorney General Merrick Garland is set to name a special counsel to oversee the Department of Justice's two criminal probes into former President Donald Trump. One involves his role preceding the U.S. Capitol riot, the other concerns his handling of government documents.
The news comes days after Trump announced he's running for president in 2024.
The New York Times reports:
The announcement, which a senior law enforcement official said Mr. Garland will make later on Friday, came after Mr. Trump said on Tuesday that he planned to run for president again, a decision some have claimed was taken to make it more difficult for prosecutors to pursue criminal cases against him.
The appointment of a special counsel was a way for the Justice Department to insulate its investigations against Mr. Trump from political considerations. While special counsels can be fired from their positions, the process is much more arduous than removing ordinary prosecutors from a case.
Special counsels are semi-independent prosecutors who by Justice Department regulations can be appointed for high-level investigations when there can be a conflict of interest, or the appearance of it. They exercise greater day-to-day autonomy than regular United States attorneys, but are ultimately still subject to the control of the attorney general.
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When will the DOJ/FBI go after the real crooks like the Biden’s and the Clinton’s ???
Never, they cover their back side.
Not until Trump is back in the WH.
Not until it benefits them and fits their own leftist agenda. Right now, the left has America by the throat, and it will stay that way until we can start having honest elections.
Has been done more than once, millions spent with nothing they discovered. Typical BS political witch hunt.
Time to impeach many in this admin.
They should be investigating the Biden and Clinton crime families. But, that would incriminate them as well. Will the DOJ and FBI ever be trustworthy again? FJB. Trump 2024
Congratulations, democraps! This is just more of the same partisan politics that you a$$hats have done twice before. The first “Special Counsel,” Robert Mueller, wasted $40 million in taxpayer money and came up empty handed, like you knew he would. Trump didn’t fall for the entrapment and you couldn’t get him removed from office, no matter how much you screeched. The attempt to remove him over his telephone call to the President of Ukraine was also based on hearsay evidence and false claims by you. Do you think the third times the charm? Why don’t you s**ts drop it already and maybe run on issues that the American people can back? Oh, never mind. You might have to try to fulfill your campaign “promises” then wouldn’t you. Liars!
If anything cries impeachment, this is it. Bad optics for Demon C’d Rats. Doing this to a candidate doesn’t do anything but show contempt and disrespect of the electorate.
Merrick is naught but a slimy swamp lizard. IMHO!
to get their money’s worth, obama should be investigated on the document handling as well. . .at least they’ll end up with something on someone when they’re finished. . .
The ANTI-AMERICA, WOKE, DEMONIC-RAT, LYING, CONNIVING, HOAX SPREADING, LIBERAL NEW WORLD ORDER DICTATORS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO NAIL PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR ABOUT 5 YEARS NOW AND HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO FIND ANYTHING TO PIN ON HIM.
THE FALSEHOODS SPREAD BY CLINTON AND THE DNC RUSSIAN HOAX, THE 2 FAKE IMPEACHMENTS, ALL THE LAWSUITS THEY HAVE LOST, AND NOW TRYING TO BLAME HIM FOR Jan.6, WHICH THEY DELIBERATELY ENCOURAGED TO TRY TO ENTRAP HIM, AND MOST OF ALL —- THE DIRTY, LYING, AND FRAUDULENT ELECTION ==
NONE HAVE STOPPED HIM.
YAWN !!!
Here we go again! These thugs, have no mercy. A group of grownups playing cat and mouse with our tax dollars to protect their reputations instead of working for We The People!
Unfortunately, today in America the worst criminals seem to be in the f b i and the dept of just us. The people need to remove these pieces of dung and replace them with honest statesmen. No more criminal democrats in offices as they have shown they care only for power and corruption
Did Garland make a mistake? Did he mean Hunter Biden or President Trump ? I hope he meant Hunter AFTER MORE THAN 2 YEARS. This partisan ALMOST became a Supreme Court Judge. God help us !
Merrick Garland is a TRAITOR to the United States Constitution, which he swore to protect. The way I see it, this move is designed to PROTECT THE REAL TRAITORS TO THE USA, Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and his brother James. Joe, Hunter, and James Biden know the Republicans in the House are coming for them and they have decided their BEST DEFENSE is a diversion against President Trump, who is actually STILL MY PRESIDENT rather than an imposter named Joe Biden.