Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to condemn “conspiracy theories” and “dangerous falsehoods” aimed at the Justice Department in a Thursday speech, where he will challenge Republican claims of politicization.
In the hours following the shooting at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, right-wing media figures and conservative influencers rallied around a baseless narrative on social media, claiming that diversity initiatives and female Secret Service agents were to blame for Donald Trump’s injury.
A Texas man caught up in far-right conspiracy theories has been charged with threatening an FBI special agent who had been involved in the federal investigation into Hunter Biden.
Attorney General Merrick Garland admonished conservative attacks against the Justice Department during a fiery House committee hearing on Tuesday and said he will “not be intimidated” by lawmakers trying to hold him in contempt.
Ervin Lee Bolling has a history of espousing numerous conspiracy theories on social media platforms.
Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department official who assisted Donald Trump’s final efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, repeatedly pleaded the Fifth in a disbarment hearing Wednesday.
A Tennessee man who insisted the U.S. was “being invaded” by illegal immigrants planned to launch an attack on migrants and federal law enforcement at the southern border using an arsenal of weapons and explosives, according to a federal complaint.
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, who is spreading debunked conspiracy theories about the FBI’s involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, said the bureau is “going down.”
