AG Garland: It’s a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ that We Somehow Controlled Trump Hush Money Trial

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GARLAND: "This effort is only the most recent in a long line of attacks on the Justice Department’s work. It comes alongside threats to defund particular department investigations — most recently, the special counsel’s prosecution of the former president. It comes alongside false claims that a jury verdict in a state trial, brought by a local district attorney, was somehow controlled by the Justice Department. That conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself. It comes as individual career agents and prosecutors have been singled out just for doing their jobs. It comes as baseless and extremely dangerous falsehoods are being spread about the FBI's law enforcement operations, and it comes at a time when we are seeing heinous threats of violence being directed at the Justice Department’s career civil servants. These repeated attacks on the Justice Department are unprecedented and they are unfounded. These attacks have not and they will not influence our decision-making.”