Posted on 04/03/2022 9:23:18 AM PDT by blam
President Biden wants his Attorney General Merrick Garland to prosecute former President Donald Trump and people within his orbit over the January 6 Capitol Riot, and has expressed frustration in private over the AG’s lack of action on the issue.
“As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments,” the New York Times reported Saturday. “And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.”
That said, it’s unclear what exactly Trump would be prosecuted for – though the Democrat-led House committee investigating the riot has claimed that Trump and his team violated the law in their efforts to overturn the 2020 US election.
As the Washington Examiner notes;
In a recent court filing for John Eastman, a Trump-linked conservative lawyer, the panel said it has evidence to show Trump may have engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States and illegally impede Congress’s counting of electoral votes.
Nevertheless, the House committee can only make a criminal referral, leaving the onus on the Justice Department.
Responding to the Times report, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said that Biden believed Garland had “decisively restored” the independence of the DOJ, adding “President Biden is immensely proud of the attorney general’s service in this administration and has no role in investigative priorities or decisions.”
Other Congressional Democrats such as Rep. Adam ‘more than circumstantial‘ Schiff (CA), as well as lame-duck Rinos such as Adam Kinzinger, also want Garland to do more.
“We are upholding our responsibility. The Department of Justice must do the same,” said Schiff, a member of the J6 committee.”
“Attorney General Garland, do your job so we can do ours,” said Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA).
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who along with Rep. Liz Cheney is one of two GOP members of the Democrat-led committee, defended Biden. “I think the president has every right to signal. I think he has every right to make it clear where the administration stands,” he said.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, also a member of the Capitol riot committee, similarly defended Biden’s push to get the DOJ to prosecute subpoena defiers.
“I also don’t have a problem with him, as a citizen like me, saying he hopes the Department of Justice will aggressively enforce the law so people don’t get away with committing crimes like this,” he said at the time. -Washington Examiner
DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley told the Washington Examiner, however, that “The Department of Justice will make its own independent decisions in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law. Period. Full stop.”
Following Biden’s comments, outgoing White House spox Jen Psaki attempted to backpeddle – telling reporters “He believes it’s an independent decision that should be made by the Department of Justice, and they’ll make that decision.”
In March, Garland said that he DOJ investigation into the Capitol riot is the “most urgent” in the department’s history – which Republican lawmakers latched onto in order to compare the DOJ’s milquetoast response to the violent riots of 2020, as well as a decision by the agency to shutter an initiative to investigate threats coming from China.
As Jonathan Turley concludes, the leaking of the President’s demand puts Garland in an even more difficult position. The clear intent of the leak is to let Garland know what the President expects from him. Yet, Garland has already been criticized by some of us for refusing to appoint a special counsel in the Hunter Biden scandal.
What is most striking, however, is the absence of any concern from the same legal experts who denounced such statements from Trump. These are statements made to aides that were then leaked to the media to get to Garland. That allows the media to say that Biden never said it directly to Garland, but the message was delivered by the media.
For Garland to yield to such pressure – after his predecessor refused to do so on investigations ranging from the Mueller investigation to the election investigation to the Hunter Biden investigation – would raise concerns over the Justice Department pursuing a political rather than a legal agenda — the very danger that Garland pledged to avoid when he stressed “I am not the president’s lawyer. I am the United States’ lawyer.”
Has been for a while.
It’s real simple.
The top heads are political appointees. Guess who they are loyal too, some Constitution or their political master?
The senior bureaucrats suck up to these appointees, wanting to get noticed. Many of them get hand picked by the appointees to fill key positions.
In the macro, all government agencies and departments are political instruments, and that should not be a surprise since government is a political beast.
The difference is, today you have no privacy, and the government has given itself massive police and regulatory powers as government expanded over the years (all in the name of public safety, national security, the environment, or social justice). In the past, when the US was decentralized and these powers just weren’t there, the government was the same political animal it is today and those in power were just as savage, immoral and nasty, they just couldn’t do what they do today!
So Biden is “pressuring” the so-called independent DOJ. Where’s the press jumping all over that. Remember how many times Trump was accused and abused of the same thing?
Isn’t that undue interference on the part of the President? Maybe an impeachable action?
Are they of the mind that they can not get away with another 2020?
They have tried many times to “prove” PDJT engaged in criminal acts.
Failure is always the result.
How many attempts does it take before PDJT counters with lawsuits for what, malicious or frivolous prosecution?
Or is it deprivation of Rights under color of Law?
How does the open request to charge PDJT with “something” stack up against Election Laws?
What is it when the current president is using the official capacity of his office to push for the prosecution of the most probable Republican Party nominee for the upcoming 2024 Presidential election so that candidate can not run?
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So the most corrupt, unpopular POTUS and administration in recent history wants to indict a man that is vastly-popular with the People? Yeah, that’s gonna work out real well. /s
The central question that would need to be asked and answered is: Was the election either stolen or rigged against Trump?
In answering that question, Trump's legal team would be allowed to present the evidence that the Judges and Justices across the country refused to look at.
If that evidence is brough forward the potential for real harm to the Democrats would be very high.
Rather than risk such a national humiliation, they will let this quietly fade away.
If they want to start a Civil War, let them try.
Here is why I think Trump will not be indicted, even if on specious grounds:
The central question that would need to be asked and answered is: Was the election either stolen or rigged against Trump?
But libs are not reasonable people, and the charge is enough, and they can stretch it out a long time.
The Trump hate is contributing to the decrepit old fool’s dementia.
“And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland,”
That means he absolutely did communicate his desire to Garland, and Garland is working it. By hook and crook, Garland will do as he is told by the NWO DeepState Cabal.
I think Biden and his crew as well as the so-called January 6th commission are a threat to democracy, and they should all be prosecuted.
Note to house republicans: first order of business next January is to stop impeachment proceedings against Joey Softserve. Two can play that game.
Yeah let’s make some charges up on Trump. Meanwhile… back at the ranch biden and his son will walk with a fine..
Biden calling Trump a threat to democracy.
Thats rich!”
But putting ballot drop boxes in 5 cities in Wisconsin, where drop boxes are illegal, is not a threat to Democracy.
Overturn the 2020 election?
That was done by the democraps and their cohorts in the wee morning hours of Wednesday, November 4th, 2020.
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