President Joe Biden regrets tapping Merrick Garland to be attorney general as he privately complains the Department of Justice didn’t do enough t0 prosecute President-elect Donald Trump, people familiar with his comments told The Washington Post.
As Trump is preparing to enter the White House in less than a month, the criminal cases against him have dissolved. Special counsel Jack Smith’s two federal cases against the president-elect will not proceed, and at the state level, two cases are also likely to be dismissed. Biden, in private, has complained that Garland’s DOJ was too slow in its prosecutions of Trump and too aggressive in its prosecutions of his son, Hunter Biden, people familiar with his comments told WaPo.
Biden’s first chief of staff, Ron Klain, pushed for the president to pick Garland as his attorney general during the 2020 transition, the outlet reported….
