Posted on 09/20/2023 6:57:37 PM PDT by Angelino97
Merrick Garland got emotional for a second time during a Judiciary hearing on Wednesday when talking about his family's Jewish ancestry.
The Attorney General got into a heated exchange with Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew when asked whether Garland, who is Jewish, believes traditional Catholics are violent extremists.
Van Drew was pointing to the creation by two Pacific Coast FBI field offices that wrote a memo claiming traditional Catholics are domestic terrorists.
'The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous! So absurd!' Garland shot at Rep. Van Drew during a tense back-and-forth.
AG Garland appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to testify as Republicans alleged the Justice Department has political bias against them.
During his opening remarks, Garland remarked that he feels he 'owes a debt' to the U.S. after taking in his grandmother, who was fleeing the Holocaust. During his opening statement, Garland got choked up and tears came to his eyes when discussing his ancestry.
He got emotional again when speaking with Van Drew about potential biases against Catholics...
'Through the chair I ask you, do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists? Answer the question,' he pushed when Garland against tried to divert.
'I have no idea what traditional means here, let me just –' the Attorney General tried again.
'Catholics!' Van Drew shot back. 'Catholics that go to church.'
'May I answer your question?' Garland said before appearing to tear up again.
'The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous! So absurd!' he said behind a cracking voice.
Garland assured that he and the FBI director were 'appaled' by the anti-Catholic memo.
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Not absurd. People of every "family background" have discriminated and done worse.
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Of course he’s Jewish
Lol so Jews somehow can’t discriminate? Go try to marry a Hasidic guy’s daughter.
“The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous! So absurd!’ Garland shot”
Wasn’t Marx a Jew?
“You can’t criticize me! I’m Jewish.”
So am I, so is Jesus. So we’re the writers of The New Testement.
On the script, one somehow suspects.
Yes. Jews are leaders for great things, and terrible things. Christianity is Jewish at it’s base. Marx wad a demonic self hating Jew.
Nazi influence
‘The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous!”
No, you miserable POS, you are in fact doing so and pull out the historical anti-semitic card to cover your cowardly ass.
You walk the corridors of exalted power in the United States government and still piss and moan over Jewish discrimination. It certainly never happened to you.
And now he's found himself at war with the IRS, which could make his loyal lieutenants drop their spears and shields right on the battlefield. That's a war they do not want any part of.
No. His father converted the family to christianity.
Especially if you are an Arab man.
Well the conversion in Karl’s case didn’t stick too well. He went well beyond.
Didn't stop Soros. I don't see why it would stop a Democrat, especially one as corrupt as Garland.
What would Garland say if Catholic politician was going after Jews?
Merrick Garland is precisely twice as Jewish as Adolf Hitler.
This phoney sloughs off legitimate questionable ethical and constitutional lawlessness, but when he wrongly turns am accusation into something archaic about him he gets all indignant! If only he cared about country, oath, and duty as much as his misplaced ego.
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