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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Defund it. Make leftist lawyers cry.
Sound like he's working on the Biden campaign's behalf and, as he was appointed by Biden, doubly partisan.
Defund the Justice Department and the FBI.
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.
NO ONE, not even senile Joe’s Jewish handlers, are going to even nominate anyone nearly 70 yo to the SC.
They rejected Garland once.
His JEWISH handlers? Leftist Communist ones control senile Joe and that’s no conspiracy theory.
Merry the friggin’ Nazi needs to recuse himself the way Jeff Sessions did.
It isn’t? Sounds like one.
And the SES and all the three letter agencies.
The Star Chamber?
Very tempting huh.
You actually think that the Republicans in the Senate who just voted to approve same sex legislation wouldn't vote for Garland?
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:
-PJ
I think he should be investigated, for all of his ethical, and legal lapses. Haul him in front of the Judiciary committee
It does not get more openly political than that!
Nobody expects the-Spanish Inquisition!
Yup!!
Defund Deep State
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