Attorney General Merrick Garland responded to criticism of the Justice Department in an op-ed for the Washington Post on Tuesday, calling claims of politicization 'false.'
Attorney General Merrick Garland responded to criticism of the Department of Justice in a Tuesday op-ed for The Washington Post, calling claims that the department has been politicized 'false.' Without naming them, Garland alluded to former President Trump and his allies, who have repeatedly claimed the DOJ was involved in the New York criminal case against the presumptive GOP nominee, who was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records by a Manhattan jury.
'I mean, Colangelo was the number three official in the Biden Department of Justice who suddenly disappears and shows up as an assistant district attorney, right as Trump’s case in New York starts to proceed. You want to talk about political …' The attorney general said the attacks on public servants were 'absurd and dangerous,' as they were just doing their jobs. 'The Justice Department makes decisions about criminal investigations based only on the facts and the law.
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