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I made a pledge I would not interfere in any way, order or try to stop any investigation the Justice Department had under way. I learned about that last night when the rest of the world learned about it. My word. I had no idea this was under way.
This last administration politicized the Justice Department so badly, so many [prosecutors], so many left because that’s not the role — that’s not the role of a president to say who should be prosecuted, when they should be prosecuted, who should be not prosecuted. That’s not the role of the president. The Justice Department is the people’s lawyer, not the president’s lawyer.
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— President Joe Biden, commenting on the recent FBI raid of Rudy Giuliani’s apartment, during an interview with Craig Melvin of MSNBC. Biden further noted that he hadn’t been briefed on the Giuliani investigation, nor did he request a briefing. Giuliani served as former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Trump said of the raid, “He just loves this country. And they raid his apartment, it’s like, so unfair and such a double — like a double standard, like I don’t think anybody’s ever seen before.”
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