Based on recent developments, including the former president's announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election and the sitting president’s stated intention to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel.
Merrick Garland provides rationale for appointing special counsels for both Biden and Trump.
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It's a great program that you created and authorized. We have 400 applications worth about $2 billion.
People want to work, and put yourself in the shoes of a 42-year-old woman who's just been a retail clerk her whole career or a waitress and got put out of work in COVID.
I will not be intimidated, and the Justice Department will not be intimidated.
I'll say what I said, which is that the cases were brought last year, prosecutor has urged speedy trials with which I agree, and this now in the hands of the traditional system, not in our hands.
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