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Garland Moves To Transform J6 Inquisition Into A Permanent Prosecution
The Federalist ^ | NOVEMBER 19, 2022 | TRISTAN JUSTICE

Posted on 11/19/2022 6:11:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Attorney General Merrick Garland launched a special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump on Friday, the week before Thanksgiving, to ensure a permanent prosecution of public enemy number one on a third bid for the White House.

The special counsel, Garland said, will take over the investigation of Trump’s purported mishandling of presidential records and probe whether Trump can be held criminally liable for the events that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. The former is a desperate follow-up to the latter after the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 emerged empty-handed from an 18-month investigation.

“It is in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution based on recent developments, including [Trump’s] announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election and the sitting president’s stated intention to be a candidate as well,” Garland told reporters at an afternoon press conference.

Trump officially declared his candidacy to reclaim the Republican Party’s presidential nomination this past Tuesday. Just as his administration was handicapped early on by a special counsel investigation probing left-wing conspiracies of Russian collusion, his third presidential campaign has already been hit with the same playbook.

The timeline of Garland’s announcement three days after Trump’s announcement was surely a political calculation. As the Soviet-style Jan. 6 inquisition began to wind down on Capitol Hill with nothing to show this summer, Garland personally signed off on an unprecedented raid of a former president. Garland sent more than 30 plain clothes FBI agents to search Trump’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago over apparent violations of the Presidential Records Act, a rarely prosecuted statute now being weaponized to prosecute political opponents. The entire investigation was set in motion by a disgruntled bureaucrat at the National Archives and Records Administration. The Justice Department...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestgarland; bloggers; investigategarland; prosecutegarland
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A permanent investigation in search of a crime, that's the ticket!
1 posted on 11/19/2022 6:11:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Defund it. Make leftist lawyers cry.


2 posted on 11/19/2022 6:15:35 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I found garland's annpouncement of the prosecution very telling and 100% partisan. (to the effect) “I am opening this investigation because the former President said he is running for POTUS and the sitting president is running for POTUS”.

Sound like he's working on the Biden campaign's behalf and, as he was appointed by Biden, doubly partisan.

3 posted on 11/19/2022 6:21:06 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Defund the Justice Department and the FBI.


4 posted on 11/19/2022 6:38:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Garland pulls this off, and if there’s an opening on the Court, Joe will nominate him, and the uniparty Senate will confirm him.


5 posted on 11/19/2022 6:42:11 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: mass55th

NO ONE, not even senile Joe’s Jewish handlers, are going to even nominate anyone nearly 70 yo to the SC.


6 posted on 11/19/2022 6:49:24 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: mass55th

They rejected Garland once.


7 posted on 11/19/2022 6:51:26 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: jjotto

His JEWISH handlers? Leftist Communist ones control senile Joe and that’s no conspiracy theory.


8 posted on 11/19/2022 7:07:34 PM PST by Moonmad27
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Merry the friggin’ Nazi needs to recuse himself the way Jeff Sessions did.


9 posted on 11/19/2022 7:08:11 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out. Remember that Snowflakes!)
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To: Moonmad27

It isn’t? Sounds like one.


10 posted on 11/19/2022 7:14:16 PM PST by Fuzz
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To: DoughtyOne

And the SES and all the three letter agencies.


11 posted on 11/19/2022 7:23:25 PM PST by curious7
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Star Chamber?


12 posted on 11/19/2022 7:27:13 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: curious7

Very tempting huh.


13 posted on 11/19/2022 7:36:22 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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"They rejected Garland once."

You actually think that the Republicans in the Senate who just voted to approve same sex legislation wouldn't vote for Garland?

14 posted on 11/19/2022 8:14:28 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Garland is a political activist with an axe to grind after his 2016 Supreme Court nomination was thwarted by the man he’s now pledged to prosecute to the ends of the Earth.

Donald Trump was still a candidate when this happened. Republicans hadn't even had their convention to nominate their candidate when McConnell announced that he was invoking "The Biden Rule" on March 16, 2016 to not move forward a Supreme Court nominee in the final year of a term-limited President's term.

As of March 16, 2016, the following candidates were still in the race:

What did candidate Trump have to do with this? This was all McConnell's doing, by popular demand from all of the Republican base. McConnell knew he would have been drummed out of leadership if he let the Garland nomination proceed.

-PJ

15 posted on 11/19/2022 8:30:25 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think he should be investigated, for all of his ethical, and legal lapses. Haul him in front of the Judiciary committee


16 posted on 11/19/2022 10:44:25 PM PST by krogers58
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Garland stated when he announced appointing a special prosecutor one of the reasons is Trump announced he is running for President.

It does not get more openly political than that!

17 posted on 11/19/2022 11:19:23 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nobody expects the-Spanish Inquisition!


18 posted on 11/19/2022 11:40:51 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yup!!


19 posted on 11/20/2022 3:08:47 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: DoughtyOne

Defund Deep State


20 posted on 11/20/2022 3:50:51 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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