WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Sunday said Attorney General Merrick Garland, not President Joe Biden, will make decisions on prosecutions in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and in other cases.
Klain was responding to a New York Times report this weekend that Biden told his inner circle last year that former President Donald Trump should be prosecuted. The Times cited people familiar with the comments.
Klain said on ABC’s “This Week” he has never heard Biden “advocate the prosecution of any person.” Only Richard Nixon and Trump believed those decisions should be made in the Oval Office, he said.
