WASHINGTON, July 21 — US Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday amid calls by some Democrats for former president Donald Trump to be prosecuted for the Capitol riot that “no person is above the law.”
“And we have done so because this effort to upend a legitimate election — transferring power from one administration to another — cuts at the fundamental of American democracy,” Garland said. Asked whether that even applies to a former president, Garland said: “No person is above the law in this country. I can’t say it any more clearly than that.
More than 850 people have been arrested in connection with the 2021 attack on Congress, which came after Trump delivered a fiery speech to his supporters near the White House falsely claiming that the election was “stolen.”
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