Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) had nothing but scorn for the Justice Department on MS NOW's "The Weeknight" on Friday, after they finally were pressured into releasing the FBI interviews of a woman who claimed, albeit with no evidence, that President Donald Trump sexually abused her when she was a teenager.
"Congressman, it's good to have you back with us," said anchor Michael Steele. "Two-part question for you. The first part: Are you really buying the line that's coming out that, 'Oh, I'm sorry, this was a review error'. It's like, 'Oh, I'm sorry, we moved the decimal point one too far, one place too far in your bank account,' right? And so it's now all zeroed out. No, no, no process tells us this is what you should have done. Process tells us because we have paper from the courts that says this is what you should do. And from the Congress it says what you should do. So don't come up with the error."
"So do you believe that, number one, and number two, the 302s themselves, and what we're learning from that, help contextualize what they're saying and how what they're saying matters right now," he continued.
"Well, first let's be really clear," said Garcia, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. "We're talking about the most corrupt DOJ in American history, so we shouldn't believe anything that they're saying. And how convenient that of that manifest of documents that should have been included, that it was the ones about the president and accusations and allegations, those were the ones that were missing in that one sheet of manifest documents. I mean, give me a break. Nobody believes that."
"It was only because of pressure," he continued. "And I myself went in to look at these documents. I searched for these documents. It was clear that they were missing. And when we put that information out there, I think the DOJ realized that they had been caught red-handed, like they've been caught time and time again on the issue of these documents. To clarify, they have actually posted some of the documents that relate to this one case, but not all of them. We have verified and so have other independent media that some of the documents, and it could likely be the communication between the different FBI agents about these allegations. Those continue to appear to be missing from the actual document. So we continue to search for those. We can't find those."
"And it's really interesting that all the documents around these allegations there are issues with, they're missing," Garcia continued. "They post them, they're here, they're gone again. And so we're going to watch this. And we're monitoring that very carefully as it relates to the allegations themselves. What these are are serious allegations made by at the time or by woman who at the time was a minor, that, of course, accused the president of sexual assault. And they are serious why they were missing. No one has explained to us and they need to be investigated."
"This is someone that was actually interviewed, appears to be four separate times by the FBI," he added. "For the FBI to go back multiple times and interview this person is significant on its own. And so we have a lot of questions for the attorney general around this case, and we are heavily investigating this incident."
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