PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 GOP frontrunner for president, told Breitbart News exclusively that Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco is the person who is actually pulling the strings at the Department of Justice (DOJ), not Attorney General Merrick Garland.
While expanding on his earlier point about how Democrat President Joe Biden is “surrounded by vicious people,” Trump noted that Monaco seems to be the person really in charge at the Justice Department and that Garland is just a figurehead.
“Lisa Monaco, she’s really running the Justice Department, rather viciously and rather illegally, and that will be found out over the next year and a half, I predict,” Trump told Breitbart News in the more-than-two-hour-long exclusive interview at Mar-a-Lago in late December.
Trump said that Monaco is “very friendly with” Andrew Weissman, who served as general counsel at the FBI and later was a top official in then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump. Weissman is now in the private sector.