CNN’s Evan Perez Presses AG Garland On Special Counsel Investigations — Like Trump’s — By Quoting Hunter Biden
CNN’s Evan Perez pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland over criticism of multiple special counsel investigations — including those of ex-President Donald Trump — by citing First Son Hunter Biden’s complaints.
Garland has appointed three special counsels who are currently active. He named Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate Trump for election and Jan. 6-related crimes and alleged violations of the Espionage Act.
He’s appointed Special Counsel Robert Hur to investigate classified documents first discovered and turned over by Biden’s team.
And most recently, in August, Garland dropped a big announcement: he named David Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who had already been overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden — to be special counsel investigating Hunter Biden.
Those investigations have resulted in indictments of Trump on 44 felony counts, three charges against Hunter Biden, and no charges against President Biden as yet.
On Friday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, Perez’s exclusive interview with Garland dropped, in which he cited Hunter Biden’s complaints about his prosecution to push Garland about “bias” in his investigations:
EVAN PEREZ: You have, appointed more special counsels than other attorneys general. You did this because you wanted to make sure that there was some independence from the way that the Justice Department operates.
But even the president’s son, you know, Hunter Biden, is accusing the department of, political, bias in the prosecutions that have been launched against him. You know, how do you reassure the public that, these things are being handled in an independent manner, given the fact that these, special counsels do report to you?
AG MERRICK GARLAND: Look, we have, reasserted and clarified the norms of this Justice Department. We follow the facts and the law wherever they lead. Politics is not a part of our, determinations. It’s, it would be improper. And it’s not.
Where, the department has regulations about the appointment of special counsels, and we follow those regulations. In each case, we have appointed people who are, formerly, veteran career prosecutors, whatever their current position is.
EVAN PEREZ: They’re sufficiently independent from you, you believe.
AG MERRICK GARLAND: Yes. And the regulations make them independent from me. So, with respect to the public, I hope they will see. And, not only from what we’ve done, but from the outcomes of the, the cases on the way in which special counsel proceeded, that we have kept politics out of this.
Watch above via CNN This Morning.
