‘Biden Has Been Bending Over Backwards to Really Say There Is a Line Between the DOJ and the W.H.’
Trump's attacks on new special counsel are called baseless
His attack on Attorney General Merrick Garland's decision to appoint a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s criminal investigations into his alleged wrongdoing is just one more of Donald Trump's baseless attacks, according to those across the political spectrum.
Garland said Friday that Trump's announcement of his presidential candidacy and President Biden's likely 2024 run were factors in his decision to appoint Jack Smith, a veteran prosecutor, to be special counsel.
Saying that he had “done nothing wrong,” Trump called Smith a “super radical left special counsel.”
The former president also told his supporters to “fight” the special counsel.
However, Garland's decision was the correct one, according to Sen Tina Smith (D-Minn).
“I think that Attorney General Garland did exactly the right thing in naming this special counsel. Making it clear that the investigation into the former president is going to be following the rule of the law and that will be completely independent,” she said in an on-camera appearance on MSNBC. “And of course it is laughable to hear the House Republicans go after this and threaten to take away funding from the Justice Department in retribution or retaliation for this, going after their candidate Donald Trump who is the face of the Republican Party so I think that it will have a clear impact and I think for the American people that the choice is so clear, you have these extreme Republicans and the House, attacking the Department of Justice and saying that their number one priorities are to de-fund Social Security and Medicare and ow apparently the law enforcement of the Department of Justice.”
Biden has gone out of his way to demonstrate the independence of the Justice Department under his administration, said Susan Del Percio, a “Never Trumper” Republican political strategist.
“Biden has been bending over backwards to really say there is a line between the Justice Department and the White House, completely opposite of Donald Trump,” Del Percio said. “But this event takes it one step further and I think will make a different when the findings come out, how they come out.”
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