Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett sounded off Friday after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a dual-front Trump special counsel investigation.
Attorney General Merrick Garland is both a hypocrite and operator of aGarland is essentially citing concerns over conflicts of interest in appointingas special counsel to handle two Donald Trump-related investigations after the 45th president announced his bid for a second nonconsecutive term, the Fox News analyst added.
Therefore, Garland could essentially protect any subpoenaed individuals including the president's son from potentially tenuous public testimony. "It's going to be very difficult for the Oversight Committee to get to the bottom of this unless they can get subpoena power that is enforceable," he said. For his part, Smith prosecuted a handful of high-profile cases at the Eastern District of New York, and later led the DOJ's Public Integrity Section during the Obama administration.
In a statement late Friday, Smith pledged to conduct the Mar-a-Lago and January 6 investigations"independently" and"expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate."He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
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