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Former Vice President Mike Pence vowed Sunday to “clear home on the entire prime flooring” of the Division of Justice if he’s elected president in 2024.

Pence, who’s looking for the Republican Social gathering’s nomination for president, mentioned he is aware of firsthand what it’s prefer to be handled unfairly by the DOJ attributable to what conservatives consider is political bias.

“I imply, it began in 2016, when James [Comey] gave Hillary Clinton a go, proper, that no different American would have gotten,” he argued. “However then what we discovered since is the reality about what was occurring in the course of the Mueller investigation.”

“, I lived by way of that for 2 and a half years once we have been busy rebuilding our army, slicing taxes, unleashing American vitality, securing our border, all of the whereas we really had FBI brokers that have been falsifying paperwork and pushing a political agenda inside the Justice Division,” he continued.

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“It’s one of the reasons why I tell people that if I have the privilege of being president of the United States, we’re not just gonna have a new attorney general and a new FBI director, Chuck, but I’m gonna clean house on the whole top floor of the Justice Department and demand that we have men and women who are respected on both sides of the aisle as people of integrity who will apply the rule of law in this country equally to every American,” he added.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the federal investigation into Hunter Biden. Republicans immediately criticized Garland’s selection of Weiss, who led the prosecution in Hunter Biden’s tax and gun charges that conservatives blasted as too lax.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., called Garland’s announcement “part of the Justice Department’s efforts to try a Biden household coverup in gentle of [House Oversight Republicans’] mounting proof of President Biden’s position in his household’s schemes promoting ‘the brand’ for thousands and thousands of {dollars} to international nationals.”

Pence on Sunday positioned much less confidence within the particular counsel’s probe of Hunter Biden than the investigation at the moment led by Home Republicans.

“I feel Joe Biden has weakened America at dwelling and overseas, however frankly, the sample of the Justice Division throughout our 4 years within the White Home and since has undermined public confidence in equal therapy beneath the regulation,” Pence mentioned. 

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“And whereas I welcome the appointment of a particular counsel, which is after all applicable and is a minimal the place the legal professional normal has a possible battle of curiosity, I am additionally comforted by the truth that Congress goes to proceed to do its work,” he mentioned. “I am assured that Home Republicans are going to proceed to convey ahead the details on this case. The American folks have a proper to know whether or not or not President Biden’s household benefited or that he himself benefited when he was serving within the job that I had as vice chairman of america in a monetary method from international nationals.”

Pence is polling in fourth place within the GOP major with 5.2% of the vote, behind Vivek Ramaswamy at 6.1%, Ron DeSantis at 15.1%, and former President Donald Trump because the clear front-runner with 54.2%, in keeping with the RealClearPolitics nationwide common.