Acting on a mix of principle and caution, Justice Department officials under former President Joe Biden made a series of decisions that significantly delayed and ultimately may have hampered the federal criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, according to a new book.

The slow decision-making at the top of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department affected two major probes into Trump after he lost the White House in 2020: whether he illegally possessed and obstructed the retrieval of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, and whether he conspired illegally to overturn the 2020 election.

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    1 day ago

    Where the hell did any of my comment say that? By god you put a lot of words in my mouth. Perhaps he could have simply staffed the department himself so that it was fair, instead of jumping to the weirdest conclusion. You do know that was well within his power right?