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US_ GOP congressman: Merrick Garland displayed ‘a breach of the oath’ by shielding Biden audio

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

GOP congressman: Merrick Garland displayed ‘a breach of the oath’ by shielding Biden audio


Attorney General Merrick Garland reacts during a farewell ceremony at the Department of Justice, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) more >

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Saturday, May 17, 2025


A Wisconsin congressman said former Attorney General Merrick Garland broke his oath of office by wrongly shielding the damning audio of Joe Biden’s October 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur, which seemed to show the former president’s mental decline was worse than the White House admitted.

Rep. Scott Fitzgerald told The Washington Times on Saturday that, at the very leas,t Mr.
Garland misled Congress about the details of the audio during testimony last year.

Mr.
Garland told Mr. Biden to assert executive privilege to block the release of the audio last year. The attorney general said making it public would hurt the Justice Department’s ability to pursue other investigations and have witnesses come forward.

Still, the transcript was released, and Mr.
Garland insisted to Congress that it faithfully captured what the president said.

In fact, the audio, which has now been made public by Axios, differs greatly from the transcript by showing a stuttering president whose pauses, not fully captured in the transcript, suggested mental decline.

Mr. Fitzgerald raised the issue with Mr.
Garland in a June hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.

That’s when Mr.
Garland said the transcript was a fair representation.

“You have the special counsel, the FBI agents in the room and you have the senior career official in the department all comparing it and finding them to be accurate,” he said.

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READ MORE: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/17/gop-congressman-merrick-garland-displayed-breach-oath-shielding-biden/

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