Republicans want to impeach US attorney general for trying to obstruct congressional investigation

The Attorney General of President Joe Biden’s administration, Merrick Garland, faced an impeachment motion yesterday by House Republicans, who accuse him of contempt of Congress because of his refusal to cooperate in their investigation of the Democratic president. Lawmakers on the American right have long been demanding the taping of the president’s testimony to a special counsel last year. The minister refused to hand it over to them. The deposition in question was made in October, as part of an investigation into the fact that Mr. Biden had kept in his possession about twenty classified documents after he had left the White House after his term as vice president (2009-2017). In his conclusion on the case, the special prosecutor assigned to conduct the investigation recommended that it be entered into the record, but he made controversial—and from a politically explosive—comments about the “bad memory” of the “elderly gentleman” president. In the midst of an election year, the Democratic camp […]
Source: News Beast

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