Posted on 01/01/2025 5:34:53 AM PST by MtnClimber
In my Sunday Smiles essay, I riffed on this Washington Post retrospective on Joe Biden's presidency and how it soft-pedaled Biden's disastrous policies and all the important questions about who was really in charge over the past few years.
I reserved for today the most important "revelation" in the story: Biden considers one of his biggest mistakes the choice of Merrick Garland for Attorney General. Garland, in his view, was not political enough.
It may seem odd to normal people that anybody could think that Garland was anything but a political hack over the past four years, but seen through the eyes of Democratic Party operatives, you can see how such an absurd idea seems normal.
During the 2020 presidential transition, Biden’s attorney general selection pitted some of his closest aides against each other. Former senator Ted Kaufman (D-Delaware) and Mark Gitenstein, both longtime friends of Biden, advocated for the president naming then-Sen. Doug Jones (D-Alabama) as attorney general, arguing that as a politician he would be better able to navigate the bitterly partisan moment.
But Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming chief of staff, pushed for Garland. He stressed that Garland — a federal judge with a sterling reputation for independence and fairness — would show Americans that Biden was rebuilding a department badly shaken by Trump’s political attacks.
Biden was persuaded, and some Democrats believe the decision had devastating results. Had the Justice Department moved faster to prosecute Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents, they say, the former president might have faced a politically damaging trial before the election. (Others blame the Supreme Court and a Trump-appointed judge in Florida for repeatedly siding with the former president and delaying the cases; the Justice Department declined to comment.)
Biden's preference for a sitting Democrat senator over a judge with aspirations to sit on the Supreme Court makes sense. Garland was not averse to playing politics, but he wanted everything to have at least the patina of being lawful. A politician whose elevation to the slot of Attorney General would have been less concerned about painting within the lines.
What sticks out about this tidbit, though, is not Biden's regret but the reason for it: his strategy for defeating Donald Trump depended upon using the Justice Department to prosecute Trump to tie him up during the campaign and use allegations to undermine Trump.
On the one hand, you could say, "That's obviously true," but on the other, this amounts to an admission that Biden's election strategy was to weaponize the Justice Department. SNIP
Trump should show no mercy in going after the real crimes in the Biden administration. None.
“Don’t underestimate Biden’s ability to F_ up” — Obama
Don’t even try to alibi Garland. The bastard needs to be prosecuted!
BTTT
I’m wondering if a civil lawsuit can be brought against Biden and his crooked family to retrieve the $ 25 million in bribes paid to them by Ukrainian and Red Chinese interests.
The weaponization of the Justice Department. Hitler did this also.
Trump needs to ride herd on all the evil Biden scum.
Hear, hear! That’s what they’re trying to do.
“Trump should show no mercy in going after the real crimes in the Biden administration. None.”
The dirty Democrats are not going to get convicted in DC, NYC or Atlanta.
Reform the laws. Take away their toolboxes.
‘Timex’ Trump takes a licking but keeps on ticking.
Democrats are more delusioinal about who 'they really are' than men who think putting on makeup makes them a woman. Get a clue guys...
I also think that it was Biden who tried to assassinate Trump.
Drag out the prosecutions and bankrupt them. The process is the punishment.
FJB does not know if he is afoot or horseback. Does he? Is it him or his handlers who are doing all the talking? Will we ever be sure?
Remove ALL security clearances.
“The court system was too slow in destroying my political opponent” sounds awfully 3rd world
Expose the Congressional #MeToo settlement slush fund and 50 years of Biden payouts will come tumbling out both male and female. The Democrats had Biden’s vote through blackmail for decades and every DC lobbyists knew it.
I doubt that he would have been troubled by a successful assassination attempt on Trump.
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