The FBI avoided investigating Donald Trump's role in January 6 for over a year for fear of seeming partisan, even as evidence mounted of a Trump-led effort to overturn the 2020 election.
soon after the attack that prosecutors were “looking at all actors, not only the people who went into the building.”investigation revealed that “some prosecutors” below Garland and Monaco “chafed, feeling top officials were shying away from looking at evidence of potential crimes by Trump and those close to him.”
Department employees tasked with putting together briefing materials for the attorney general and his deputy were told to steer clear of mentioning Trump or Trump allies. One former Justice official told the, who was part of a special counsel probe of the Bush White House in the 2000s, said of the department’s desire to avoid the appearance of political impropriety.
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