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 Democrats hope DOJ holds Trump accountable after Mueller disappointment
by Brett Samuels - 07/30/22 5:00 PM ET

For the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency, liberals and Trump critics who wanted to see him punished for criminal acts or substantial wrongdoing poured their hopes into then-special counsel Robert Mueller.

Now, watchdogs, Democratic lawmakers and Trump opponents all have their eyes on Attorney General Merrick Garland as his Justice Department ramps up its investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

“I think all eyes are on Garland in the same way as they were on Mueller, with the major difference, of course, that Mueller had no power to criminally prosecute,” said Eli Merritt, an author and political historian at Vanderbilt University.

Another key difference between the Mueller special counsel probe and the ongoing Justice Department investigation, experts said, is how public the evidence in the Jan. 6 probe is compared to the 2016 Russia investigation.

Mueller’s investigation was conducted largely out of public view. The voters’ knowledge of his findings was largely limited to news reports and a drip-drip of guilty pleas and indictments involving Trump associates.

The public ultimately learned of key details of the investigation in 2019, when Mueller issued his final report laying out instances where Trump may have obstructed justice, though he ultimately did not definitively say the president committed a crime.

Meanwhile, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots recently wrapped up its first round of public hearings, during which it methodically illustrated how Trump spread falsehoods about the 2020 election, encouraged his supporters to come to Washington and then refused to call them off as they descended on the Capitol.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3580192-democrats-hope-doj-holds-trump-accountable-after-mueller-disappointment/
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