Attorney General Merrick Garland will denounce 'conspiracy theories' and 'dangerous falsehoods' targeting the Justice Department during a speech.
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a meeting of the Justice Department 's Election Threats Task Force, at the Department of Justice, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Washington.
"These attacks have come in the form of conspiracy theories, dangerous falsehoods, efforts to bully and intimidate career public servants by repeatedly and publicly singling them out, and threats of actual violence," Garland will say in his speech inside the Great Hall at Justice Department headquarters, according to prepared remarks provided to reporters.
Garland does not mention Trump or Republicans in the excerpts. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has repeatedly accused prosecutors of bringing politically motivated criminal cases against him. Republicans have also falsely claimed that New York criminal case, in which Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in May, was orchestrated by Biden and the Justice Department.
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