General Garland, the Department of Justice should enforce the law regardless of politics. I do not believe that has been what is happening in the last two years. Among other things, I believe you very much want to indict Donald J. Trump. Toward that end, the Department of Justice has leaked that DOJ is investigating and intends to indict Hunter Biden. The purpose of those leaks, I believe, was to set the predicate for an indictment of Trump. To say, “Look how even-handed we are, we’re indicting Biden, we’re indicting Trump.” Those leaks are not law enforcement, they are politics. Did you know about the leaks about the Hunter Biden investigation?
Garland: I don’t know about the leak that you’re talking about. The leaks are in violation of our regulations and our requirements, so the answer is the leaks are consistently on one side of the aisle advancing one political agenda.
As you know, the FBI rated Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home, and subsequent to that raid, there have been multiple leaks about what was discovered there, including a photograph of documents that were discovered there. Did you know about the leaks?
Garland: The photograph was a filing in court in response to a motion filed by Mr. Trump. It was not a leak.
Cruz: So you’re testifying there haven’t been leaks about the Trump raid?
Garland: I’m responding to the point about that. You know about the leaks that have occurred. The leaks are inappropriate. We also don’t know where they come from. Witnesses on the…
Cruz: But what’s interesting is when the shoe was on the other foot, I believe your intention, and I believe it’s a political intention, to indict President Trump became infinitely harder when classified documents were discovered repeatedly at President Biden’s multiple residences. According to the public record, those were first discovered on November 2nd, six days before the prior election. Department of Justice was notified on November 4th, and yet miraculously, there was no leak about the classified documents at President Biden’s home. When it politically benefited the effort to go after and charge Donald Trump, DOJ leaked. When it potentially harmed the Democrat president, DOJ did not leak. Does that strike you as at all a double standard?
Garland: Leaks, under all circumstances, are inappropriate, and they are not directed by anyone in the Justice Department. Let me say, in particular, on Hunter Biden, I very much hope that an investigation of Hunter Biden is focused not just on his own personal substance abuse issues but on connections to his father and potential corruption. That is the matter of public concern and why people are concerned. It was striking that the leak that came out from DOJ suggested this is just going after some poor person struggling with drugs, instead of looking at the very real evidence of corruption. Will you commit that the investigation will actually examine the public corruption aspect and not simply scapegoat Hunter Biden as an individual?
Garland: I can’t comment about the investigation other than to say that all the matters involving Mr. Hunter Biden are the purview of the U.S. attorney in Delaware. It’s not restricted in his investigation in any way.
Cruz: Well, you don’t comment here, but then you leak at the same time.
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Cruz: to indict Trump became infinitely harder when classified docs discovered repeatedly at Biden’s multiple residences