Biden’s DOJ Must Determine Whether Trump Should Be Prosecuted
- The president-elect previously said he wouldn’t interfere
- Manhattan inquiry could lessen pressure on Justice Department
Joe Biden said he wouldn’t “interfere with the Justice Department’s judgment of whether or not they think they should pursue the prosecution of anyone that they think has violated the law.”
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Joe Biden won the presidency promising to bring Americans together. But now his administration is sure to come under pressure from some Democrats to risk exacerbating divisions by investigating and prosecuting Donald Trump.
It would be a turnabout of the “Lock him up!” chants regularly directed at Biden by Trump’s supporters at campaign rallies.