Former President Donald Trump lashed out at the DOJ after AG Merrick Garland announced he was appointing a special counsel to oversee the investigations into Trump's handling of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home.
, Greene said Republicans "will need to refuse to appropriate any funding to Merrick Garland’s Special Counsel and defund any part of the DOJ acting on behalf of the Democrat party as a taxpayer funded campaign arm for the Democrat’s 2024 presidential nominee.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who has sometimes rebuked Trump, said in a statement that Garland's decision was "not good news for our country." He said he has experience with special prosecutors and independent counsels. "They take forever to investigate and make a decision. This means the issue will extend way into the 2024 election cycle. It will be a distraction," said Hutchinson, who has hinted at a 2024 presidential run himself., known as Jack Smith, a prosecutor at The Hague and a former federal prosecutor, to begin serving as special counsel “immediately.
Smith is tasked with investigating whether anyone violated the law in connection with efforts to “interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021, as well as any matters that arose or might arise directly from this investigation.” The U.S.
Smith said in a statement following the announcement that he will conduct an “independent” investigation and "will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate."
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