A Republican congressional candidate’s political advertisement shows her primary opponent shaking hands with Joe Biden,
Kelly Daughtry's political advertisement shows Brad Knott shaking hands with Joe Biden, falsely claiming that Knott worked for the Democratic president.Assistant U.S. attorneys are not hired or appointed by the president. saying that he worked for the Democratic president.
Knott says the image of him shaking hands with Biden is fake, and his campaign has already responded to some of Daughtry’s claims in an In March 2016, when Democratic President Barack Obama was still in office, Knott was hired to work as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.Bruce worked as a federal prosecutor for many years including under George Holding, who was appointed by President George W. Bush to lead North Carolina’s Eastern District in 2006 and served until 2011. Holding, a Republican, later represented a Triangle-area district in Congress from 2013 to 2021.
Contacted by PolitiFact NC, the Daughtry campaign didn’t provide evidence that Biden ever hired or appointed Knott. Daughtry’s campaign said it believes that it’s fair to refer to Knott as"Biden’s lawyer" because Knott has referred to himself as"a prosecutor under the Biden White House" while speaking at a local
No"true conservative" would"stand idly by" as other federal prosecutors brought charges against Trump, Daughtry spokesman Stefan Mychajliw said in an email.by Attorney General Merrick Garland, has charged Trump with conspiring to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss and with illegally retaining classified documents.
In a telephone interview, Gowdy said he interviewed for positions in Colorado and New York before being hired in South Carolina in 1994 by U.S. Attorney"I never met Bill Clinton in my life. To this day, I have not met Bill Clinton. I never met Janet Reno," said Gowdy, who now hosts" Gowdy noted that federal prosecutors cannot bring charges against anyone on their own. Law enforcement agencies — from the FBI to local sheriff’s offices — are responsible for investigating criminal activity and arresting suspects. Federal prosecutors can determine who to prosecute only after those agencies refer cases.
He was hired as an employee of the federal government before Biden became president — in a role that’s considered apolitical.Email correspondence with Jonathan Felts, spokesperson for the Brad Knott campaign.Image of the"Meet the U.S. Attorney" webpage for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina,of the candidate forum for Republican candidates in North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District hosted by the Western Wake Republican Club, posted to YouTube Jan.
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