'Lie of the year!' Trump spends Christmas yelling about DOJ official's ABC News interview
Donald Trump on Christmas lashed out against a DOJ official, saying she lied in an interview with ABC News about President Joe Biden's lack of input on the Justice Department's prosecution of the former president and Hunter Biden.
Trump, who has previously attacked Lisa Monaco, the U.S. Deputy Attorney General, did so again on Christmas following the interview. ABC News reported that Monaco said claims that the DOJ is politicized do "a disservice to the men and women of the Justice Department."
But Trump was not buying it. In a post on his own social media site, Truth Social, Trump said "ABC Fake News" had offered her a "softball question" when the reporter asked her if Biden has ever raised the classified documents probe, the Hunter Biden investigation, or Trump's criminal cases, or tried to influence the team.
"LISA MONACO’S FAKE ANSWER, 'No, and the Attorney General has been exceptionally clear on this point.' What a complete lie," Trump wrote, offering his own speculation and conjecture about it. "He speaks to them all the time, and she speaks to Deranged Jack Smith, and others. She also speaks to the Scum outside of her office, like Andrew Weissmann, essentially her boss, who has desperately fought for years to 'get Trump,' or the new attorney brought in to help Deranged Jack Smith?"
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Weissmann is a legal analyst for MSNBC who used to work for Robert Mueller's team when it was investigating Trump's Russia contacts.
Trump goes on to claim, without providing evidence, that Biden wanted Monaco and her boss to act quickly on the ex-president's criminal probes.
"It’s all about Election Interference, and Biden was pushing Garland and Monaco to act, AND FAST," he asserted. "They think the American public, and even the Supreme Court of the United States, are stupid. No, Crooked Joe Biden has NEVER SPOKEN to Garland or Monaco about Hunter or 'TRUMP.' That one gets, 'LIE OF THE YEAR!'"