Garland Claims Not The President’s Lawyer, No One That I Know Spoken To Biden Admin About Hunter

Garland, during testimony, stressed that he is “not the president’s lawyer,” and that the Justice Department’s “job is to follow the facts and the law, and that is what we do.”

On 9/20/2023, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Republicans grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney General Merrick Garland testified that he never had any discussions with U.S. attorney David Weiss regarding details of the Hunter Biden investigation, while at the same time affirming to the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the prosecutor had total authority over the probe — despite just granting him special counsel authority last month.

Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday as part of the panel’s hearing to examine how the Justice Department has “become politicized and weaponized under the leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland.”

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Key Points

Garland, during testimony, stressed that he is “not the president’s lawyer,” and that the Justice Department’s “job is to follow the facts and the law, and that is what we do

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On 9/20/2023, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Republicans grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland

• Attorney General Merrick Garland testified that he never had any discussions with U
• attorney David Weiss regarding details of the Hunter Biden investigation, while at the same time affirming to the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the prosecutor had total authority over the probe — despite just granting him special counsel authority last month

Transcript Highlights

Transcribed from the video audio:

• Our job is not to do what is politically convenient
• Our job is not to take orders from the president, from Congress, or from anyone else about who or what to criminally investigate
• As the president himself has said, and I reaffirm today, I am not the president’s lawyer
• I will add, I am not Congress’s prosecutor
• The Justice Department works for the American people
• Our job is to follow the facts and the law, and that is what we do
• No one that I know of has spoken to the White House about the Hunter Biden case