Posted on 10/04/2023 8:45:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Merrick Garland, the U.S. attorney general, made his case on “60 Minutes” amid his department’s politically loaded prosecutions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden. His case amounted to: Hey, don’t look at me. I’m only in charge here.
One dispositive outcome so far is that the federal indictments of Mr. Trump have helped him to a near lock on the Republican nomination, the most overdetermined result in social science history.
CBS’s Scott Pelley asked one obvious question: Were the special-counsel charges meant to damage Mr. Trump for the general election? He failed to ask another: Did the department consider that its indictments might help ensure Mr. Biden got the Republican opponent that he so publicly said he wanted?
Mr. Garland insisted he was never pressured by the White House and would have resigned, but an Everest-size asterisk attaches to his claim. In a heavy-handed leak to the New York Times last year, Mr. Biden’s aides spoke freely if anonymously about the president’s “frustration” with his Justice Department, his desire for Trump indictments. Mr. Biden, according to the Times, “said privately he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action.”
Mr. Garland also insisted to CBS that the U.S. attorney making all decisions in the Hunter Biden case, David Weiss, is a Trump appointee, a line he repeated nine times before a recent House hearing.
A big asterisk attaches here too. Mr. Biden, as president, publicly declared that Hunter had “done nothing wrong.” Mr. Weiss is a Republican who made his career in Biden-dominated Delaware. He was approved for his job by the state’s two Biden-loyal senators. Until this year’s GOP House takeover, Mr. Weiss was reportedly looking to end the Hunter investigation without charges.
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Delaware is such a small state that politically, everyone knows everyone. This guy had to know that going after the “little guy” would get him in trouble with the “big guy”.
Garland is going to be impeached or forced to resign if all this new information about his lying to Congress is true.
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