Biden wish for Trump prosecution leaked as Democrats mount pressure campaign on DOJ

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Biden wish for Trump prosecution leaked as Democrats mount pressure campaign on DOJ

by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor & Jerry Dunleavy|  | April 02, 2022 03:20 PM

A new report claims President Joe Biden has told people he wants former President Donald Trump to be prosecuted.

The leak was published in the New York Times on Saturday as Democrats mount increasing pressure on the Justice Department to take action against Trump and people within his orbit in relation to the Capitol riot. At focus are Attorney General Merrick Garland and his “deliberative approach,” as the report put it, which is causing frustration.

“As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments,” the report read. “And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.”

Just what Trump would be prosecuted for is unclear. However, the House committee investigating the Capitol riot says its investigators have reason to believe Trump and his associates broke multiple laws in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. In a recent court filing for John Eastman, a Trump-linked conservative lawyer, the panel said it has evidence to show Trump may have engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States and illegally impede Congress’s counting of electoral votes.

Nevertheless, the House committee can only make a criminal referral, leaving the onus on the Justice Department.

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Trump and his associates have repeatedly denied any criminality related to the Capitol riot, which took place on the day Congress met to certify Biden’s 2020 election victory, and its surrounding events. One former aide, Steve Bannon, has been indicted on contempt charges for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee, while another, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, has so far escaped prosecution.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates offered comment for the article, insisting that Biden “is immensely proud of the attorney general’s service in this administration and has no role in investigative priorities or decisions.”

The White House did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s questions on whether Biden privately expressed frustration with Garland related to Capitol riot prosecutions, whether he had privately said Trump should be prosecuted, to whom the president expressed these opinions, whether these private frustrations were communicated to Garland or to the Justice Department by someone other than the president, for what Biden thinks Trump should be prosecuted, and whether Biden regrets publicly weighing in on Jan. 6 prosecutions previously. The White House also did not answer the question about whether it knows who leaked to the New York Times, whether it condemns the leak, and if the leak is being investigated.

Democrats have gone public with their belief that Garland and the Justice Department should be more assertive with the Capitol riot situation. “We are upholding our responsibility. The Department of Justice must do the same,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the Jan. 6 committee. “Attorney General Garland, do your job so we can do ours,” said Rep. Elaine Luria, another member of the panel, according to Politico.

In October, Biden urged the Justice Department to prosecute anyone who defied subpoenas from Capitol riot investigators.

“I do, yes,” Biden said to reporters when asked if the DOJ should prosecute anyone who resisted subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 select committee. “I hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable criminally,” the president said.

The Justice Department distanced the agency from the president at the time.