It’s difficult to keep track of how many times former President Donald Trump has been accused of breaching the law, despite the fact that none of these investigations have led to a conviction. There has been ongoing talk of reports being true thanks to leftist media and Democrats in Congress. For instance, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee reacted to a timely New York Times article from earlier this year that alleged that Special Council John Durham’s investigation into the Trump-Russia investigation was marred by ethical issues that resulted in the departure of several staff members. These allegedly included worries about William Barr, a former attorney general, being involved in the investigation and the decision to proceed with the trial in the absence of enough evidence.
As committee chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) noted in a statement, “These reports about abuses in Special Counsel Durham’s investigation — so outrageous that even his longtime colleagues quit in protest — are but one of many instances where former President Trump and his allies weaponized the Justice Department.
“The Justice Department should serve the interests of the American people, not those of any president personally. The Senate Judiciary Committee will do its part and thoroughly examine these repeated events, as well as the rules and practices that allowed them, as we wait for the findings of ongoing internal probes, to make sure that such abuses of power won’t occur again, he said.
Former President Trump wasted no time offering his opinion on the trending subject. Trump recently discussed Special Counsel Durham’s two-year investigation, stating he believes the investigation is “only the beginning” of what the public will learn.
“It looks like this is just the beginning, because, if you read the filing and have any understanding of what took place, and I called this a long time ago, you’re going to see a lot of other things happening, having to do with what, really, just is a continuation of the crime of the century,” Trump said. “This is such a big event, nobody’s seen anything like this.”
“Who would think a thing like this is even possible?” Trump said. “Durham is also coming up with things far bigger than anybody thought possible—Nobody ever thought a thing like this would be even discussed, let alone an act like this committed.”
Of course, given what Durham has uncovered, Democrats are primed to smear Durham’s findings and former Obama officials and Democrats are already taking aim at Durham and his final report. An Obama-era spokesman for the Department of Justice believes Durham should not get the final say over his own report, Conservative Brief reports.
Matthew Miller — who served as the director of the Department of Justice’s public affairs office between 2009 and 2011 — said that Attorney General Merrick Garland, or another high-ranking official within the department, should review the report before it is shared with Americans, once again trying to include those who sought to attack Trump and who may be connected to the actual findings to be part of the report, which should be an impartial statement.
“His cases are over. I think it’s clear that he’s not going to bring any more charges in this investigation, but one of the requirements for special counsels under the regulations is that they write a confidential report and submit it to the attorney general, and the attorney general then makes a decision whether to release that report to the public,” he said. “I think Merrick Garland will be under a lot of pressure from Republicans to release that report, but I have to say, this circumstance is very different from the Mueller investigation, where, obviously, the attorney general, Bill Barr, did release that report,” the former spokesman said.
“It’s different because in that case, the subject of that investigation could not be charged, and so it was appropriate for the department to make its findings public, so Congress could decide whether to impeach and convict the then-sitting president,” he said. “That is not the case here, so to release a report in this instance — given what we know about the way that Durham has behaved, some of his inappropriate public statements during this investigation, the poor judgments he has made in bringing these charges — to release a report publicly and let him have the final word I think probably unfairly tarnish some people at the FBI that we know he holds ill will to based on some of the things he said in this most recent trial.”
“But it does not have to be the last word. Lots of times in the past — there’s ample precedent for this — when the Justice Department has written reports like this, the leadership decides whether that actually reflects their view,” he said. “John Durham does not get to be the final arbiter of what the Justice Department believes, so it would be appropriate for Merrick Garland to either review it and come up with his conclusions or, maybe more appropriately, refer it to the senior career official.”
Rephrased from: The Republic Brief By: Trump Knows
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