{"id":1955387,"date":"2023-06-23T14:47:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T18:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-merrick-garland-calls-criticism-of-doj-attack-on-democracy\/"},"modified":"2023-06-23T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T18:48:00","slug":"watch-merrick-garland-calls-criticism-of-doj-attack-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-merrick-garland-calls-criticism-of-doj-attack-on-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrick Garland deems criticism of DOJ an assault on democracy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-merrick-garland-calls-criticism-of-doj-attack-on-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1955387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Attorney General Merrick Garland Defends Justice Department Amid Criticism<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department,&#8221; Garland said Friday after a reporter asked whether Americans have &#8220;cause to be concerned&#8221; about the DOJ&#8217;s integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Garland said such criticism &#8220;constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The DOJ is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-announces-california-gubernatorial-run-as-newsom-recall-nears-threshold\/\" title=\"Republican Announces California Gubernatorial Run as Newsom Recall Nears Threshold\">facing criticism<\/a> after Congress released an interview with a whistleblower from the IRS who said the Biden administration slow-walked its investigation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-merrick-garland-calls-criticism-of-doj-attack-on-democracy\/\" title=\"Merrick Garland deems criticism of DOJ an assault on democracy.\">reduced tax fraud charges<\/a> for Biden, who reached a plea deal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One of the two IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley, said the IRS recommended felony tax charges for the first son but the Justice Department balked. The other whistleblower has not been named publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jason Smith (R., Mo.) said both IRS employees claimed the IRS wanted felony charges brought against Biden for attempting to evade taxes and fraudulent or false statements.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The whistleblowers said the probe, however, faced &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-received-preferential-treatment-from-irs-doj-over-felony-tax-fraud-investigation-irs-whistleblowers\/\" title=\"IRS whistleblowers allege that Hunter Biden was given special treatment by the IRS and the DOJ during the investigation into his felony tax fraud.\">recurring unjustified delays<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;unusual actions outside the normal course of any investigation,&#8221; according to Smith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other revelations from the report include that Biden deducted payments to sex clubs and hookers on his tax returns. The report also discussed a message sent on July 30, 2017, to a Chinese official by Biden, who said he was sitting next to his father and that &#8220;we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department against criticism, calling it an &#8220;assault&#8221; on democracy. This response came after reports revealed that the agency disregarded the IRS&#8217;s advice to prosecute Hunter Biden for serious tax offenses. Garland emphasized that some individuals were questioning the department&#8217;s integrity, addressing concerns raised by a reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1955388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1955388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}