The Attorney General of the government of the United States, Merrick Garland has declared that he would resign if President Joe Biden ever asks him to take action against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
He however, noted that he doesn’t think he’ll be put in that position.
Speaking on an interview aired on CBS ’60 Minutes’ which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York, he said; ‘I am sure that that will not happen, but I would not do anything in that regard, And if necessary, I would resign. But there is no sense that anything like that will happen.’
The Justice Department is at the center of not only indictments against Trump that include an effort to overturn the 2020 election and wrongly keeping classified documents, but also cases involving Biden’s son Hunter, the aftermath of the riot at the U.S. Capitol and investigations into classified documents found in the president’s home and office. Garland has appointed three separate special counsels.
Garland has been reticent to discuss the cases, and on Sunday he maintained that he would not delve into specifics. Nevertheless, he rejected assertions made by Trump and his supporters that the cases were designed to undermine his prospects of winning the presidency in 2024.
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‘Well, that’s absolutely not true. Justice Department prosecutors are nonpartisan. They don’t allow partisan considerations to play any role in their determinations,’ Garland said.
Garland said the president has never tried to meddle in the investigations, and he dismissed criticism from Republicans that he was going easy on the president’s son, Hunter, who was recently indicted on a gun charge after a plea deal in his tax case fell apart. Hunter Biden is due in a Delaware court this week.
‘We do not have one rule for Republicans and another rule for Democrats. We don’t have one rule for foes and another for friends,’ he said. ‘We have only one rule; and that one rule is that we follow the facts and the law, and we reach the decisions required by the Constitution, and we protect civil liberties.’
Garland choked up when talking about his concerns over violence, particularly as judges and prosecutors assigned to the Trump cases got death threats.