The US attorney general insisted Wednesday that “no one is above the law” as Democrats push for impeachment of Donald Trump in the investigation into the Capitol assault.
Merrick Garland is leading federal prosecutors leading “the most important investigation the Justice Department has ever conducted,” he told reporters about the judicial investigation into the assault on Congress in Washington on January 6, 2021.
“No one is above the law in this country”
That day, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump had attended a fiery speech by their president, beaten at the polls but saying otherwise, before marching on Congress and invading it. Since then, the question of Donald Trump’s legal responsibility has arisen.
“We must hold accountable anyone who is criminally responsible for trying to overturn a legitimate election,” the Democratic minister told reporters.
Asked about the possible application of this principle to a former president, Merrick Garland said that “nobody is above the law in this country. I couldn’t be clearer.”
More than 850 people were arrested
“Nothing prevents us, in the principles of criminal prosecution or anywhere else, from conducting an investigation into any person, anyone, who is criminally responsible for an attempt to overthrow a democratic election,” he added.
More than 850 people have been arrested in connection with this massive investigation into the assault on Congress. Most of them were accused of hindering an official process: the certification, by congressmen that day, of the election of Joe Biden.
Donald Trump, 76, who is openly flirting with a new presidential candidacy in 2024, was, on January 6, accused of inciting insurrection by the House of Representatives in an impeachment procedure, blocked in fine by the Senate.
Source: BFM TV
