Biden and Garland Relationship Chilled Over Perceived Missteps in Pursuit of Impartiality
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Relations between Biden and Garland have grown cold over Garland's perceived overuse of special counsels, including for Biden's classified docs.
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Garland appointed special counsels for Biden and Pence to appear evenhanded, despite their cases being very different from Trump's.
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Garland retained and later appointed Trump-picked U.S. Attorney Weiss to investigate Hunter Biden, despite questionable charges.
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The charges against Hunter Biden likely wouldn't have happened if not for his relation to the president.
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Garland's over-correcting for impartiality has damaged apolitical justice, though it's better than Trump's alignment with Barr.
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