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Representative Jamie Ruskin, a Democrat who is on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, said he believes Attorney General Merrick Garland knows “what is at stake here”. But” when it comes to the possible indictment of former President Donald Trump from the Justice Department.
“One of the conventions crushed during the Trump administration was respect for the freedom of law enforcement function by politicians,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” “Attorney General Garland is my constituent, and I do not bully my constituents. I think he knows, his employees know, American lawyers know, what’s at stake here. They know the importance of this, but I think they are taking precedence in history as well as the facts of the matter. ,
Last week the committee revealed that several Republican lawmakers apologized to then-President Donald Trump, including Rep. Scott Perry, with Ruskin calling it “shocking.”
“It’s several members of Congress, as Vice Chair (Liz Cheney) said at our inaugural hearing, and all in due course, the details will come out,” he said.
Perry has denied that he apologized to Trump.
“The notion that I have ever apologized to the President for myself or for other members of Congress is a complete, shameless and soulless lie,” he tweeted.
Ruskin also said that one of the goals of the hearing is to prove to “any reasonable, open-minded person” that Trump knew he lost the election and wanted to reverse the results anyway.