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'Department Of Trump': Biden Says DOJ Has Become Trump's 'Private Law Firm' [View all]
Source: TPM
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Wednesday accused Attorney General Bill Barr of running the Justice Department as the “Department of Trump.”
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“It’s become the Department of Trump,” Biden said at a summit for Black business owners and educators in Charlotte, North Carolina, a key swing state in the 2020 election.
Biden said that if elected, the Justice Department will be “totally independent” of him as president.
“I will not direct them who to prosecute, how to prosecute, what to prosecute,” Biden said. “I will not enter their decisions based upon the judgments they make about what cases they bring.”
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/biden-doj-trump-private-law-firm
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