DOJ Wants More Than 100 New Lawyers Hired To Prosecute Capitol Rioters

The US Department of Justice is asking for funding so that they can hire more than 100 new lawyers to help prosecute the 100's of Capitol Rioters awaiting trial. This is a much-needed addition for the department, but that manpower could also be put to good use prosecuting other people...like Donald Trump. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

Don't forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected!

Connect with Farron on Twitter

*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos.

The United States department of justice announced last week that they were seeking an additional 34.1 million because they wanna hire an additional 131 prosecutors in order to really get through with all of the capital riot cases that of court are still pending. So far, there have been 770 arrests of these capital rioters. More arrests are still expected, and most of these individuals are still awaiting trial. In fact, only one has actually gone to trial. The rest of them 'em have pleaded out and, you know, received sentencing already, or they've pleaded guilty, but only one is going to trial. And of course that individual was in fact found guilty, but 131 new prosecutors, that's a lot. I mean, let's be honest about that. That is a ton of lawyers that this agency does desk need so that they can get through these cases with a little bit of speed.

And in all fairness to the capital riots, if fairness is deserved, which of course it is in the legal system, we like to think it is, they do have a right to a speedy trial. And if the DOJ does not get this money to bring on these new lawyers, the DOJ makes it clear. Like we're obviously still going to prosecute them, but we could obviously run into some constitutional problems of taking years in some of these cases to get to these people because we just don't have the staff. So yes, the DOJ needs the money. They need the 131 new pro so that they can take these things to trial and get them done with, you know, maybe in the next two, three years, not having to take six or seven years to do it. My only issue is that the DOJ also needs to maybe bring in some new blood to work on prosecute.

Other people involved with the events of January 6th, cuz the capital riot we now know obviously was just a small piece of a much larger puzzle. And it really served as a distraction to some of the more nefarious deeds that were taking place that day. I would like to see not just new prosecutors brought in, but I guess you'd call them special prosecutors because I want special prosecutors appointed to investigate Donald Trump. And of course, all of his little accomplices out there who attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Now it was also revealed last week, by the way that yes, the DOJ is moving forward with a grand jury investigation into the fake elector scheme. So, you know, that's a good thing, glad that that's happening, but that really is kind of just fraud against the government, you know? So they got slighted. So of course, yeah, we're.

We're gonna do something about this, but Trump is not being investigated. Hell Mark Meadows has not been arrested for the criminal contempt charges been sitting in the DOJ since December 14th, we need more prosecutors so that we can tackle all of these people and not just those awaiting trial, trying the cases is only part of what the DOJ does. The other part of what they're supposed to be doing is carrying out investigations. So bring in the investigators, bring in the special prosecutors and of course go hire your 131 new people so that we can get, not just some, all of the answers about everything that happened on before, around and concerning January 6th,