Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina vowed Tuesday that he’ll clear home on the Department of Justice and FBI if elected president, saying it’s wanted to revive confidence within the justice system.
Asked at a Fox News town-hall assembly hosted by Sean Hannity about Hunter Biden’s plea deal earlier within the day, Mr. Scott stated each American needs to be handled equally underneath the legislation and stated congressional investigators have to be given room to finish their probe into accusations of wrongdoing leveled at President Biden and his son.
“If they can’t finish their investigation, President Tim Scott will finish it,” Mr. Scott stated. “We are going to fire Joe Biden and then we are going to fire [Attorney General] Merrick Garland and fire [FBI Director] Christoper Wray and we are going to restore confidence and integrity in our Department of Justice.”
The remarks got here after the information broke that Hunter Biden has agreed to a plea cope with the Justice Department on two misdemeanor tax costs and in addition comply with phrases that allowed him to sidestep prosecution on a separate gun cost.
The deal was brokered with a federal prosecutor appointed by former President Donald Trump.
The information dominated Mr. Hannity’s opening monologue the place he accused the Justice Department of treating former President Donald Trump and Mr. Biden’s troubled son to completely different requirements.
Mr. Trump not too long ago grew to become the primary president charged with federal crimes over his dealing with of labeled paperwork.
Mr. Hannity and Fox News have rallied to his facet, whereas Mr. Trump’s rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential race have responded in numerous methods as they wait to see how issues pan out.
Mr. Scott stated the “Big Guy,” utilizing a time period that Hunter Biden’s associates used for his father, “has some explaining to do” and questioned the Justice Department’s actions.
“You cannot have them going after the pro-life activists with a SWAT team; you can’t call parents who show up at a school board meeting domestic terrorists; and you cannot, it is unacceptable and un-American to weaponize the Department of Justice against your political opponents,” Mr. Scott stated, referring to a litany of conservative complaints about DOJ actions.
“It is just wrong,” Mr. Scott instructed the town-hall viewers in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Before that, Mr. Scott seized the looks on Fox to share components of his stump speech, telling the viewers the United States is the “freeist, fairest land on God’s green earth, and we will never apologize for being Americans.”
Mr. Scott, the only real Black Republican within the Senate, jumped into the race a month in the past and has been busily introducing himself to GOP main voters — lots of whom are unfamiliar together with his political profession.
He is working on a intentionally optimistic message, telling audiences that his story — that of a Black man raised in poverty by a single mom in South Carolina — is proof the United States is a spot the place individuals can rise above their circumstances if they’re devoted to particular person accountability and conservative values.
“If you work hard, you have integrity and you have grit, all things are possible in today’s America. And the left weaponizes … race whenever they are losing an argument,” Mr. Scott stated Tuesday. “That does my grandfather an injustice.”
“The pain and the progress of this nation should be viewed as a symbol … of what is possible,” he stated. “The left, they refuse to deal with America in 2023 and not 1923 because they know that the truth of my life disproves the lies of their radical agenda.”
Mr. Scott barely registers within the polls, however has loads of time to make inroads towards Mr. Trump, who holds a giant double-digit lead over the sector, and his closest rival, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.
Mr. Scott was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2013 by then-Gov. Nikki Haley, now one in all his presidential-primary rivals, following the resignation of Sen. Jim DeMint.
He went on to win a particular election to fill out the rest of Mr. DeMint’s time period and was re-elected to full six-year phrases in 2016 and once more in 2022.
Before that, he served within the U.S. House, within the South Carolina legislature, and on the Charleston County Council.
Christale Spain, South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman, stated previous to the occasion that Mr. Scott has “used his campaign to push forward a dangerous, extreme agenda in the 2024 race for the MAGA base, so it’s no surprise his first nationally televised town hall as a presidential candidate is on the friendly confines of FOX News.”
“South Carolinians are already all too familiar with Scott’s record — voting with Donald Trump nearly 100% of the time, serving as the ‘architect’ of Trump’s tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, and advocating for a national abortion ban,” Ms. Spain stated. “No matter how many lies he tries to spin tonight during tonight’s town hall, he cannot erase that extreme history.”
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