The White House chief of staff compared Donald Trump to Richard Nixon, who resigned from the presidency in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal, in arguing that President Joe Biden has rejected the notion that a commander-in-chief.
During an appearance on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Klain sought to tie Trump and Nixon together unfavorably while also refuting a recent New York Times report that said Biden privately wanted Trump to be prosecuted for his role in January.
According to the Times report, Biden was becoming increasingly frustrated with Garland, with the president saying that the attorney general needed to take more action regarding the Capitol siege.
I have never heard the president advocate the prosecution of any person, according to Stephanopoulos.
One reason why Joe Biden got elected was that he promised to put the decision over who got prosecuted and what away from the White House and put it in the Justice Department. In the modern era, only Richard Nixon and Donald Trump believed that prosecution decisions should be made in the Oval Office.
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Biden would not interfere in investigations at the Justice Department and had no questions about Garland.
He said that the president has confidence in the attorney general to make those decisions.
Stephanopoulos inquired about the Justice Department probe into Hunter Biden, the president's son.
The president is confident that his son did not break the law. It is something that no one at the White House is involved in.
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