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Peter Stone in Washington

Is Trump in his sights? Garland under pressure to charge ex-president

Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, has said ‘we will follow the facts’ in investigating the events of 6 January 2021. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images

The attorney general, Merrick Garland, is facing more political pressure to move faster and expand the US Department of Justice’s investigation into the January 6 Capitol attack and charge Donald Trump and some of his former top aides.

With mounting evidence from the January 6 House panel, court rulings and news reports that Trump engaged in a criminal conspiracy in his aggressive drive to thwart Joe Biden’s election win in 2020, Garland and his staff face an almost unique decision: whether to charge a former US president.

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