AG Merrick Garland Asked Point Blank If He Would Be 'Comfortable' Putting Trump On Trial

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Attorney General Merrick Garland was asked whether he would be comfortable putting former President Trump on trial so close to the election.

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00:00Off-topic question.

00:01Yeah, go ahead.

00:02Prosecutors working with Special Counsel Jack Smith have said in court that a trial for

00:08former President Trump this fall would not violate the Justice Department's 90-day rule

00:12around elections.

00:13Would you, as the Attorney General, be comfortable with putting Trump as the Republican nominee

00:17on trial?

00:18Look, I'm not going to talk about a pending case other than to say that the prosecutors

00:23brought both of the cases almost a year ago.

00:26They asked for trials in December of last year and January of this year.

00:31Other than that, I'm not going to talk about a case that's pending.

00:33Great.

00:34Last question.

00:35Evan.

00:36Attorney General, as you may have heard, there's a debate tonight in Atlanta between President

00:41Biden and the former president.

00:43And we expect, given the last few days, that we're going to hear a lot about political

00:48persecutions and prosecutions of the former president.

00:52What can you tell the public about the efforts that you've made that you believe would show

00:59that there hasn't been a political persecution of the former president?

01:03The idea that politics infects our prosecutions, nothing could be further from the truth.

01:08We have one rule.

01:09We follow the facts and we follow the law, and we make the appropriate decisions.

01:14That's what the special counsels have done, and that's what the Justice Department has

01:18always done.

01:19Thank you, everyone.

01:20Thanks, everybody.

01:22Thank you.

AG Merrick Garland Asked Point Blank If He Would Be 'Comfortable' Putting Trump On Trial

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