Merrick Garland warns move would leave US ‘naked’ to everything from ‘influence of the Chinese Communist Party’ to ‘domestic violent extremists’
Some of Mr Trump’s hardline Republican allies have called for a defunding of the FBI to protest its investigation into and prosecution of more than 1,140 Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021, in a bid to overturn his election defeat.
Wednesday marked Mr Garland’s first testimony before Congress since two historic firsts: the department’s criminal charges against a former US president and against a sitting president’s adult child. It also comes a week after the Republican-led House launched an impeachment inquiry into Mr Biden, related to Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and as congressional inaction threatens to cause the fourth partial US government shutdown in a decade beginning next month.
Mr Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has pleaded not guilty to those charges and to two state criminal indictments he faces in New York and Georgia.
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