In an epic, June 4, 2024, House Judiciary Committee hearing about the “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),” Rep. Matt Gaetz grilled U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland over AG Garland’s claim that it is a “conspiracy theory” that the DOJ was out to get Trump and working with state and local prosecutors to do so.
Kicking off that line of questioning, Rep. Gaetz said, “Attorney General, you’ve told us that it’s a dangerous conspiracy theory to allege that the Department of Justice is communicating with these state and local prosecutions against Trump. You can clear it all up for us right now. Will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents all correspondence between the department and Alvin Braggs office and Fani Willis assaults office and Letitia James’ office?”
AG Garland didn’t give an answer, telling Rep. Gaetz, “The offices you’re referring to our independent offices of state.” Not backing down, Rep. Gaetz fired back, “I get that I get that day. The question is whether or not you will provide all of your documents and correspondence? That’s the question. It’s, I don’t need a history lesson.”
AG Garland, continuing his attempt to dodge, snapped back, “Well, I’m gonna say, again, we do not control those offices, they make…” Cutting him off, Rep. Gaetz said, “the questions, communicate with them, not whether you control them, do you communicate with them, and we provide this…”
Rep. Gaetz also said, speaking both about the Office of Legislative Affairs that AG Garland mentioned and AG Garland’s “conspiracy theory” comment, “They will come in here and you will lodge this attack, that it’s a conspiracy theory that there is coordinated lawfare against Trump. And then when we say fine, just give us the documents, give us the correspondence. And then if it’s a conspiracy theory, that will be evident.”
He continued, “But when you say, well, we’ll take your request, and then we’ll we’ll sort of work it through the do J’s accommodation process, then you’re actually advancing the very dangerous conspiracy theory that you’re concerned about. Now, you’re you were a judge once nominated the highest court in our country, when you were a judge. I’m just curious, did you ever make political donations to partisan candidates?”
AG Garland said, “No, no” and Gaetz continued, “And you didn’t, because that would create the potential appearance appearance of impropriety?” AG Garland told him, sarcastically responding to Gaetz’s impropriety question, “I didn’t because there’s a federal rule Oh, are in federal judges for making contributions? Right.”
Rep. Gaetz then asked him, “But under that same theory of attacks on the judicial process, like shouldn’t someone be owed, like a jury of their peers and a judge that’s non biased rather than getting a judge from your political opponents donor file?” He said, “I’m well aware that you’re not asking a hypothetical. You’re asking me to comment on a verdict jury verdict in a nother jurisdiction, which has to be respected. I won’t comment on it. That case is still ongoing…”
Watch them bicker here:
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