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FIRST ON FOX: A erstwhile U.S. legislator and longtime governmental confidante of President Biden openly acknowledged that nan Department of Justice was "full of Biden people" during nan Obama presidency, sparking disapproval from skeptics arsenic Biden's DOJ continues to conflict questions astir its impartiality successful high-profile investigations.
"The Justice Department is afloat of Biden people!" Former Delaware Democratic Sen. Ted Kaufman said successful a 2012 "Oral History" Senate question and reply reviewed by Fox News Digital successful consequence to a mobility astir Biden's input connected furniture positions.
"I mean afloat of Biden people. If you want a database of wherever Biden group are, location are a full bunch of group successful nan Justice Department, and a full bunch of them successful our overseas argumentation establishment, and a full bunch of them successful nan White House, OMB, and places for illustration that."
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Former Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., (Left) and President Biden (Right) (Getty Images)
"But since financial betterment wasn’t 1 of his awesome interests, he didn’t person group successful it. Although I must say, aft I near nan Senate I was offered 2 awesome positions successful nan financial area of nan management which I turned down," Kaufman continued. "He would person had 1 personification successful nan financial area if I had not decided that my clip of full-time employment days was complete and that I had a different position of wherever I was going to go."
Kaufman, who Biden referred to arsenic 1 of his "closest friends successful nan world" during a White House arena past year, has a agelong history of moving pinch President Biden and says nan 2 met erstwhile Biden was not yet 30-years-old contemplating a tally for Senate successful 1972. Biden's sister Valerie, who was serving arsenic Biden's run manager, recruited Kaufman to thief pinch nan run and Kaufman later joined Biden's Senate unit wherever he worked for 22 years yet becoming Biden's main of staff.
Kaufman was appointed successful 2008 to capable nan Delaware Senate spot vacated by Biden erstwhile he went to nan White House to service arsenic Obama's vice president and nan Delaware Democrat served location for astir a twelvemonth earlier existent Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., took nan occupation aft winning a typical election.
He was astir precocious nan caput of Biden's 2020 modulation and was described successful a Politico floor plan piece arsenic nan "man who virtually wrote nan laws connected statesmanlike transitions" and said Kaufman "likely has much power complete a early Biden management than anyone different than nan Democratic statesmanlike nominee himself."
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President Joe Biden (Left) and erstwhile President Barack Obama (Right) (Getty Images)
White House lawman property caput Andrew Bates did not reside nan Kaufman quote, but alternatively told Fox News Digital that "President Biden is proud to person restored nan afloat independency of nan Department of Justice from politics, a bipartisan tradition."
"He’s besides proud that aft nan Trump Administration became nan first since Herbert Hoover to successful full suffer jobs and near him pinch a spiking convulsive crime rate, he delivered unprecedented occupation creation and nan biggest convulsive crime simplification successful 50 years," Bates continued.
The resurfacing of Kaufman's remarks comes arsenic Biden's DOJ is progressive successful high-profile investigations into erstwhile President Donald Trump arsenic good arsenic Biden's son, Hunter, which conservatives person agelong based on person been politically motivated.
"Joe Biden is nan epitome of a corrupt, profession politician," nan Trump campaign's nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital.
"The only jobs Crooked Joe has ever created are for his arsenic crooked family members astatine overseas companies aliases for his partisan leftist friends successful nan national government. Biden's witch-hunts against his governmental opponent, President Trump, person been cautiously coordinated and led by Biden's heavy authorities Democrat friends who make a surviving by ripping disconnected American taxpayers," Leavitt continued. "On nan contrary, President Trump has employed thousands of group astatine his successful companies for decades and had an unparalleled grounds of occupation creation successful his first word arsenic President, which will only proceed erstwhile he is re-elected successful November."
In this photograph illustration, Merrick Garland responds to questions astir his memorandum to nan FBI regarding parents' uprisings against CRT and gender ideology policies successful schools. (Fox News Digital )
Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas recently sent a scathing missive to nan DOJ and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg past month, highlighting nan hiring of Michael Colangelo connected nan squad attempting to complaint nan erstwhile president pinch 34 counts of falsifying his business records, including alleged hush money payments to big movie character Stormy Daniels.
Colangelo was antecedently employed arsenic a elder charismatic astatine President Biden's DOJ, but reportedly near his domiciled successful December 2022 to activity arsenic Senior Counsel astatine nan DA's agency a fewer months earlier nan indictment of Trump.
GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a vocal critic of nan DOJ nether Biden, told Fox News Digital that "it is clear to nan American group that Joe Biden’s weaponization of nan Department of Justice is an forbidden shape of predetermination interference targeting President Trump" aft reviewing nan unearthed Kaufman quote.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., a staunch professional of nan Biden DOJ, told Fox News Digital that "it is clear to nan American group that Joe Biden’s weaponization of nan Department of Justice is an forbidden shape of predetermination interference." (Getty Images)
Donald Trump Jr. blasted "Crooked Joe" successful a connection to Fox News Digital and said Biden "has been a animal successful nan DC swamp for complete 50 years and nan DOJ is nan beating power of nan swamp, and truthful his power complete it is nary surprise."
"Anyone pinch a moving encephalon tin spot that nan intent of these corrupt cases against my begetter is to effort to prevention Biden politically," Trump Jr. continued, defending his father. "It’s shameful that Biden’s minions astatine nan DOJ are consenting to move America into a Banana Republic, each to effort to extremity my begetter from retaking nan Presidency."
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Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland, who heads nan Biden DOJ, has travel nether aggravated scrutiny complete nan handling of aggregate investigations. Earlier this year, Garland pushed backmost connected critics who accused nan DOJ of governmental bias.
"Look, we person reasserted and clarified nan norms of this Justice Department," Garland replied. "We travel nan facts and nan rule wherever they lead. Politics is not a portion of our determinations. It would beryllium improper and it’s not. The Department has regulations astir nan assignment of typical counsels, and we travel those regulations."
He went connected to say, "In each case, we person appointed group who are formerly seasoned profession prosecutors, immoderate their existent position is."
Fox News Digital reached retired to Kaufman and nan DOJ for comment.
Fox News' Alexander Hall and Aubrie Spady contributed reporting.
Andrew Mark Miller is simply a newsman astatine Fox News. Find him connected Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to [email protected].
