Posted on 01/06/2025 12:39:46 PM PST by Red Badger
Outgoing US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday defended his persecution aggressive prosecution of Trump supporters who merely walked through the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Garland released a statement ahead of Congress’s certification of the 2024 election.
More than 1,500 January 6ers – many nonviolent, first time offenders – have been charged by Merrick Garland’s DOJ in the last four years.
Biden’s DOJ hunted down MAGA grandmothers and other non-violent offenders and threw them in the DC gulag.
Merrick Garland defended his actions and told a whopper of a lie about DC Metro and Capitol police officers.
“On this day, four years ago, police officers were brutally assaulted while bravely defending the United States Capitol. They were punched, tackled, tased, and attacked with chemical agents that burned their eyes and skin. Today, I am thinking of the officers who still bear the scars of that day as well as the loved ones of the five officers who lost their lives in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6, 2021,” Garland said.
Not one police officer died in the line of duty on January 6, 2021.
“January 6 was a violent attack on the law enforcement officers defending the Capitol, and it was an unprecedented attack on a cornerstone of our system of government — the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next,” Garland said.
He continued, “Over the past four years, our prosecutors, FBI agents, investigators, and analysts have conducted one of the most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in the Justice Department’s history.”
Garland boasted about locking up more than 1,500 Trump supporters.
“They have analyzed massive amounts of physical and digital data, identified and arrested hundreds of people who took part in unlawful conduct that day, and initiated prosecutions and secured convictions across a wide range of criminal conduct. We have now charged more than 1,500 individuals for crimes that occurred on January 6, as well as in the days and weeks leading up to the attack,” he said.
Merrick Garland absurdly claimed his prosecutors, who ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling on the 1512(c)(2) obstruction charge.
“The public servants of the Justice Department have sought to hold accountable those criminally responsible for the January 6 attack on our democracy with unrelenting integrity. They have conducted themselves in a manner that adheres to the rule of law and honors our obligation to protect the civil rights and civil liberties of everyone in this country,” Garland said.
“I am proud of them, and I am grateful to them for them for the work they have done and the sacrifices they have made over the last four years to seek accountability for the January 6 attack on the Capitol,” he concluded.
Maybe Garland will be locked up, along with ‘Wingman’ Eric Holder.
““On this day, four years ago, police officers were brutally assaulted…”
How many of those jailed were charged with such crimes?
Pretty much none.
Amnesty and pardons are coming. Wrongs are being righted.
How do you form a deep and lasting friendship with someone unless you share at least some of that person’s underlying principles?
Jimmy Carter was a Marxist.
Wrong thread.
The meritless Garland has brutally attacked Trump and the Jan 6ers, along with Catholics and Parents of students being indoctrinated in the Public Schools.
He’s a Domestic Terrorist.
Everyone charged/jailed should be given at least $1 million compensation for false imprisonment, trauma, etc.
Arrest Garfunkel and put him in Gitmo.
Today I heard Norah O’Donnell say that 5 officers were killed. The lies don’t end.
Merrick Garland just a yes boy for the party leaders it’s how he got where he is.
He knows what to kiss and who’s to kiss and when to do it just like Biden does.
What about Simon?...............
Note the carefully chosen terminology: not "of all citizens" but "of everyone in this country," apparently including everyone illegally here.
Biden will give Nora O'Donnell a Presidential Citizen's Medal.
Since everyone who died was White, why do the Sh*tocrats care?
Especially since none were members of the alphabet community
I would demand proof- names and photographs of the “deceased” officers.
None will be forthcoming, of course.
You can call me Al. Best duo video ever.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
Sorry spell correct I meant Garfinkle
Paul Simon’s music = pretty good.
Kodachrome
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8rlDTK6QI-w
Garland is hoping to be on Joe’s 12th hour mass pardon list, like a lot of other Biden miscreants.
Joe is waiting until the end so he doesn’t have to repeat the Hunter pardon disgrace for too long.
Most criminals wish they could have this Get Out Of Jail Free card.
It will be an admission of guilt.
Where to start?
Why was Ray Epps given such friendly treatment?
Who were the agents provocateur?
Why did the police incite the crown with flash bangs, and rubber bullets to the face?
Why did the police officer attempt to murder a protester by pushing him off a 2nd story ledge?
How many federal agents were in the crowd?
Who was the scaffold commander?
Why did the police officer beat the woman on the ground?
Why did the J6 Commission destroy evidence?
Did Liz Cheney suborn perjury?
And the great majority of them were just there, didn't riot and were peaceful observers. Even those that did enter the Capital were respectful and did not vandalize or destroy such as the anti-Israel protestors at Columbia University did. Trump should immediately pardon those who at worse were charged with misdemeanors.
Huh?
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