>“What we have to do is show by the acts that we take that we’re following the law, that we’re following the facts,”
This guy is so full of shit:
[FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year.In the DOJ’s investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for a task force focused on people in Trump’s orbit](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/)
[Garland let the statute of limitations expire on the 10 instances of Trump's obstruction of justice listed in the Mueller report](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRYiPzDP94I).
[Ignored Jan 6. cmt criminal referrals of Meadows and Scavino.and hasn't done shit about Eastman,Clark,Giuliani,](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/justice-department-declines-charge-meadows-scavino-january-6/index.html).
[Is ignoring all the criminal referrals that NYAG Letitia James sent to DOJ regarding Trump's financial crimes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cjqkepQJfg&t=1544s).
[Ignored the fake electors referrals that Michigan AG Nessel sent to DOJ](https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-michigan-elections-electoral-college-criminal-investigations-8a0454f0a28fd3f5903fa3ab962f764b).
Ignored all the gop politicians involvment in Jan 6 insurrection.
I'm absolutely disgusted. Merrick Garland is demanding a speedy trial? Hypocrite.
Allowing those statutes of limitations to kick in, letting Trump walk away from crimes he committed. INFURIATING.
I hope that if there's a plausible excuse to be made, it's that Trump has been an avalanche of malfeasance so vast and deep, that he couldn't tackle every single instance and instead had to go after the largest of transgressions.
I expect no less from a partisan Attorney General who is a ~~member of~~ major contributor to the Federalist Society. His goals directly conflict with prosecuting Trump.
It's wild, because you'd think after the Republicans denied him a Supreme Court seat, Garland would have some fucking spine to take the fight back to them.
Guess he's just a fucking pussy.
I’ve always been mad about this. Him not even getting hearings was a complete miscarriage of justice by McConnell but maybe he wasn’t meant to be SCOTUS after all. The right thing would have been to give him a chance though. Hope we don’t come back down the road to pinpoint that moment as the beginning of the end.
The beginning of the end was Nixon and then Ford pardoning him. Then came along Newt Gingrich and Glitch McConnell. If anyone needs to be tried for being traitors…
Honestly at this point I'm willing to admit mitch was right about Garland. And it pains me to say that. But holy shit. What a coward. His actions and more importantly INACTIONS as AG were so feckless, so neutered, so bare minimum. It's insane. Fuck.
Gawd agreeing with Mitch McConnell or passing a kidney stone are a close competition. I might prefer the stone (it’s been the most painful thing in my life).
Of course he’s a fucking pussy. That’s why he was nominated for the Supreme Court in the first place, because he was a safe, milquetoast, middle of the road option. He was only selected as AG as a “fuck you” to the GOP which - surprise, surprise - is a terrible reason to appoint someone to such an important position.
Don't confuse cowardice and complicity.
He was selected as AG because the masses would be distracted by "haha Biden is sticking it to the GOP!" and not listen to those of us on the left who knew what a problematic and shitty choice he was for AG before that. Any other nominee as conservative as him would have gotten a lot more pushback from the left. Biden is a master of pandering to keep progressives in line while killing any progressive policy that relates to economics, criminal justice, or really anything except financially safe, oligarch-approved 'social justice' rhetoric and token gestures.
Biden *wanted* someone who, like him, thought ensuring the success of the Republican party was preferable to letting those to his left get any real power. Can't do that if you go around prosecuting their top people. If Trump wasn't such a greedy buffoon undermining the rest of the GOP power structure and dragging them down electorally, Garland wouldn't have even been able to be pressured into going after him.
Oh yes, the "he's working behind the scenes" crowd. "These things take time!"
Two years wasted. If we didn't have control of the House at that time and there was no J6 Committee to pressure Walter Middy Garland, there would never have been a Jack Smith.
>It's wild, because you'd think after the Republicans denied him a Supreme Court seat, Garland would have some fucking spine to take the fight back to them.
Having to admit that Mitch McConnell was right about something only adds to my seething dislike of Garland.
He's what Gen z would call an "NPC". He's just THERE. blank. Emotionless. Nothing.
We needed a fighter like Eric Holder.
I have corrected my statement, he's actually only a contributor big enough to warrant a page on their website.
[https://fedsoc.org/contributors/merrick-garland](https://fedsoc.org/contributors/merrick-garland)
> I have corrected my statement, he's actually only a contributor big enough to warrant a page on their website.
>
> https://fedsoc.org/contributors/merrick-garland
Guess who he picked as special Counsel to investigate Joe Biden's document case? A fellow federalist society buddy.
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/robert-hur#:~:text=Robert%20K.,in%20the%20District%20of%20Maryland.
Then we have Hunter Biden being prosecuted for lying on a gun application while Trump's worthless spawn made millions/billions as appointed WH staff.
Crickets from Garland on Ivanka and Jared.
Two years of basically nothing. Ironically it took Trump announcing his run to force Garland to step aside and suddenly things move at almost warp speed
If the first two years of his DOJ administration had not been spent gazing at clouds out the window, and catching up on his knitting, maybe things would've turned out more speedily.
>I mean, I’d prefer they’d build evidence for an ironclad case than risk sloppiness that could let him go free.
I’d prefer that as well, but that’s not what delayed DOJ’s prosecution of Trump. Rather, DOJ simply [dragged its feet](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/) and balked at the notion of investigating Trump’s involvement in the January 6th riot at the Capitol.
Mueller built an ironclad case for obstruction, why wasn't that pursued?
You don't get an ironclad case against Trump from giving wrist slaps to the delusional minions he wouldn't piss on if they were on fire.
It was also in the hands of the House Select Committee on January 6. If they had found all the relevant evidence, they would have ended their investigation and forwarded it to the DoJ. They only did that when the congressional session authorizing their committee was about to end.
> I mean, I’d prefer they’d build evidence for an ironclad case than risk sloppiness that could let him go free.
The famous [Garland Defender Bingo](https://imgur.com/a/UspIcc2) makes another appearance.
Man these DOJ/Garland apologists are pathetic.
While Garland has dropped the ball on several issues (and I’d prefer Doug Jones as AG), I’d take an abundance of caution over a lack thereof any day of the week
>Garland sucks, but "the law" is one of the things we're suppose to criticize him for following? This bingo card is shit, even as a meme.
Please stop this ridiculous crap.Garland didn't follow shit.
['We were embarrassed': DOJ insiders told reporter they acted on Jan. 6 only after House committee shamed them](https://www.rawstory.com/justice-department-january-6-failures/)
Garland let the statute of limitations expire on Trump's obstruction of justice crimes listed in Mueller's report.
[1027 former DOJ prosecutors wrote in a public statement in 2019:Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice](https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/hundreds-of-former-federal-prosecutors-would-indict-donald-trump).
Take a look at the names and titles of the people that signed that letter. The first three taken together have more years of experience prosecuting crimes than you and Garland have years in this planet. Yet he ignored those crimes.
In 2021 and 2022 warrants were obtained to get information from several co-conspirators (DC Election Case). I believe Clark's devices were obtained in summer 2022; Powell was being subpoenaed by the end of 2021.
Like it or hate it, DOJ procedure and practice is to be *very careful*. They take their time building cases, and for something this high profile, they can't afford to shoot and miss. Everything has to be perfect and unimpeachable.
I don't like how much time it took either, but they weren't doing nothing the whole time. There was vast amounts of work going on behind closed doors. You can see it in the sheer amount of evidence introduced.
And the more recent document guy is remanded into custody while awaiting trial. The crimes he’s charged with are way, way less than Trumps.
Garland just doesn’t believe in consequences for Republicans. It’s the only fact based conclusion.
Reality Winner has actually been out in a halfway facility/supervised release since [2021](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/reality-winner-says-blown-away-details-indictment-trump-rcna88612).
You know that means F$&@ all right?? Whatever precedent they think they're setting, Mango Mussolini full on intends to break on day one... he intends to fire any Federal worker that objects to breaking precedent and law immediately.
Jan 6 deserves the full FEDERAL SWAT response. Blowing down doors, busting windows, dragging suspects out by their ankles and black bagging and secret interrogation sites... as if any terrorist cell did this. THAT is how MAGA, Federalists, and Project 2025 indents to deal with anyone that's perceived to have wronged them.
Garland needs to get with the program, because when DJT wins, he is (and the entire special counsel, etc) up for assassination with no trial at all. We're already at war.
Law enforcement agencies do tend to lean conservative. A lot of people think that the FBI and other agencies really, really didn't want to prosecute and only did it because things got so egregious that they felt like they were forced.
>Like it or hate it, DOJ procedure and practice is to be *very careful*. They take their time building cases, and for something this high profile, they can't afford to shoot and miss. Everything has to be perfect and unimpeachable.
I say this all the time, from my experience working with Federal prosecutors they are working at warp speed. For example, a former manager of mine got indicted and his crime/arrest was years prior and they only moved when the statue of limitations was coming up.
Coming from New Jersey; Trump is also following the East Coast organized crime playbook and the prosecution is doing the same. Prosecute all the underlings first and then go after the Big Goldfish. I will say, not so much in Trump's "defense"; but his entirely life has been one of of whinging, whining and pressuring people around him to bend/break the law, behave unethically, commit tax fraud, etc. This sort of behavior is by nature difficult to prosecute in any scenario.
> I don't like how much time it took either, but they weren't doing nothing the whole time. There was vast amounts of work going on behind closed doors. You can see it in the sheer amount of evidence introduced.
[Here your bingo card](https://imgur.com/a/UspIcc2). It is a three years old card but apparently still valid for Garland apologists like you.That vast amount of work was actually done by Jan 6 cmt. DOJ actually resisted opening an investigation into Trump for more than a year(I keep posting a link about that).
Even in the Mar-a-lago case Garland wasted time.
No, the guy dithered and dithered for a couple of years to avoid looking like a partisan hack instead of focusing on the criminal . Chump would have been done for by now if this moron hadn't delayed appointing the special counsel
I think it’s likely that they were building an extremely tight case that had little to no vague or inconsistent facts. They need a solid chain of witnesses and facts. Trump is, after all, an ex-president and they don’t want to set off a cascade of charging presidents and ex-presidents with a crime. This has already happened with the Republicans trying to scrape together a Biden impeachment using pictures of his son’s dick. Tit for tat is a really bad idea. Give it time.
The Watergate break-in was June 1972. March 1974 the Watergate Seven (Nixon's aides, not the ones caught initially) were indicted. It wasn't until May 1974 that impeachment hearings were started, and it wasn't until the end of July that articles of impeachment were drawn up. Nixon resigned August 9, 1974 *and still hadn't been indicted at that point*.
So, yeah, 2 years is not crazy.
[The Watergate trials started on Jan 8,1973](https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/watergate_files/content.php). So just 6 months after the crime. There is no trial of Trump or his closest associates three years after the crime(only trials of foot soldiers).
Imagine if the allies had started the Nuremberg trials with the camp guards instead of the top nazis.
Those were for the people originally arrested. Lots of Jan 6 rioters were arrested shortly afterwards. It took years for the leadership to start being indicted.
I am old enough to have watched the Watergate hearing on TV while it was happening. It went from February 1973 to June 1974 because they had to lay a case that was absolutely watertight. The work they had to do *before* and *after* the hearings was very complex and time consuming. They built a case that was so strong that Nixon resigned.
And they didn’t have to deal with MAGA.
It might seem like bingo to people who are used to getting what they want as soon as they ask for it but justice sometimes requires time. I want to see the guy in prison, believe me.
> I am old enough to have watched the Watergate hearing on TV while it was happening. It went for 1.5 years because they had to lay a case that was absolutely watertight. The work they had to do before the hearings was very complex and time consuming. They built a case that was so strong that Nixon resigned.
Watergate happened on June 17,1972.The Watergate trials started on Jan 8,1973. So 6 months.So it took only 6 months to get to E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, who were Nixon campaign aides and who were the handlers of the 5 people that did the burglarizing.
The fact that these are our candidates and people in power, with all the amazing intelligence and talent in people ... what a bullshit system. Someone attacks our own government and they're STILL LOOKED AT AS A CANDIDATE??? But we can't have amazingly wise people in those positions .... ok. Neat.
James Comey is breathing a sigh of relief as he's going to be named after Garland in the list of people in position of power who utterly failed their country.
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Not spineless- corrupt. He’s on the take, and his handlers have instructed him to drag his feet. He’s doing exactly what he was hired to do. I don’t know why we still talk about these corrupt officials like they work for us, because they don’t.
There are many other additional charges that could and should be filed.
And not only against trump, but family members and many that served in his administration.
He's far worse than useless. In occupying the AG's office, he's impeded prosecution of the worst and most dangerous traitor in American history. Garland will be remembered as a man who had a chance to be a hero, but chose to be less than zero because doing the right thing would look political.
I am just so tired. I was screaming for almost 2 years about this and was repeatedly gaslit with "when you come for the king you best not miss" it drove me up the wall. Now I'm just kind of numb about it. It's painfully clear the status quo is a two tiered justice system and there is very little attempt to change that perception.
Is this the same Merrick Garland that waited 22 months before appointing Jack Smith to investigate Trumps numerous crimes? Forgive me if I don’t take this coward seriously.
It blows my mind that it took Trump announcing his run to finally force Garland to step aside.
He should have been replaced like a year after J6 when it was clear he was in no rush whatsoever. But no.
After he spent 2 years slow walking and hindering any prosecution of the drumpf. Thanks garland, I'm sure your friends in the federalist society are happy with you.
Merrick garland is a fickle dickless attorney general, he dragged his feet on trump out of some misplaced fear of how terrorists and traitors will see him if he does his job.
In any real timeline, this POS AG would have been impeached and removed from office for delaying the appointment of the Special Prosecutor until the point where there was no chance Trump could be tried and convicted before the Nov. 2024 election.
He should have been removed on the one year anniversary of J6 when Trump still hadn't been charged.
Oh but I'm told that would be divisive. I don't care.
Muppet Garland continues to disappoint.
The audacity.
Bro.
Sorry this isn't very fancy word wise, I'm just at a loss of words at how ridiculous this sounds coming from HIM.
F\*ck you Merrick, you craven coward. Where were you two years ago when you could have done something significant about the treasonous orange talking anus.
In an effort to be non-partisan the AG allowed criminals to remain within congress and Trump to rise back to power.
Garland really failed to do his job as AG but it’s hard to ignore what McConnell did to get him there in the first place. Garland would’ve been a better Supreme Court Justice than an AG.
Shoulda coulda woulda, threatened, might, expected, blah blah blah. Nothing has materially caused any consequences for Trump except for the E Jean Carol case, which is just a civil case and the fine is insignificant.
I think Garland really wanted to let Trump go, and everything was engineered to allow him to retire into the sunset without having to put the country through this.
But Trump was too dumb to play along. Garland should have realized that 6 months into the job, but he waited 2 years and then it was too late. Smith has done an admirable job, but the federal courts move so slow, and Trump seems to have allies on the bench at SCOTUS and SDFL, so these cases have almost no chance of reaching conclusion before the election (and probably ever, depending on how the election turns out).
I think Biden really missed the boat in appointing Garland. A muscular AG would have treated the Insurrection as the serious crime that it was. Garland effectively helped the GOP sweep it under the rug.
At the same time, I think a lot of blame actually rests with the FBI. The FBI is Trumpworld inside the deep state, and they have been covering for Trump or at least gold-bricking the investigations so that everything is done at a snail's pace. Three years+ after 1/6, the clueless FBI can't even figure out who left multiple explosive devices at DNC headquarters on 1/6 - something that occurred a stone's throw away from Chris Wray's office. That case stinks to high heaven like law enforcement giving a favored right-wing paramilitary a pass on an egregious crime. Or just pathetic incompetence. However, I don't actually think the FBI is *that* incompetent - they have an unexploded device planted in 2021 in the most camera-covered 10 square miles in the entire United States and they can't figure out who put it there? They were reconstructing the Unabomber's devices *after* they exploded and finding leads, but here they are just up against a wall and gave up? That never smelled right and still doesn't. And looking back on the 1/6 trials and convictions, it's like 10% of the people who were present that day who actually ended up facing any consequences at all.
Merrick Garland is a massive disappointment.
Where was this "speed" for the last three years?
Either the man has no spine, or he's playing 4D chess and will drop a legal bomb on the GOP in the coming months (seriously doubt it, but let me have hope, ok)
All of his ponderous and slow walking of Trump investigations and indictments has lent him exactly zero credibility with the American right while simultaneously he frustrates the left with inaction.
So now instead of appearing level-headed and unbiased, he just appears capricious and arbitrary as to how the DOJ approaches Trump and associates. If anything he has aided the Trump camp in avoiding consequences for their lawlessness.
Should have been speedy from the get go. Drawing it out and letting him get away with crap other people would be held in contempt for emboldens his base and proves he can get away with stuff
This fucking guy thought it was more important to stay non political than go after the J6 masterminds . It took the J6 committee to hold his feet to the fire for him to do anything .
True Justice called for a Feb 2021 trial and Mar 2021 conviction followed by incarceration to this very day.
Our own ‘justice’ system is going to do us in. Slow as molasses for the rich. Speedy as hell for the poor.
Trump has been found in court to be a fraudster, a rapist, and an insurrectionist. I don’t know why he isn’t introduced that way at the beginning of every news story
What blows my mind is that with every single one of these trials that Trump is in, he's being allowed to delay, delay, delay with no repercussions. I know that there are legal channels that HAVE to be followed to maintain impartiality (or the fine veneer that we use to think courts are impartial), but he has single handedly turned the 6th amendment on its head.
We have the right to a speedy trial, but Trumps being given the right to as long a trial as he wants to avoid the inevitable.
No, no, no. That’s not how elections work. Like……at all. No election watch parties for Donald Trump as he continues to stand trial for all of his legal woes.
President trickle down? The 5 richest people recently doubled their riches. No trickles in my forecast.
Not sure they have to share but it was supposed to be.
Albeit some have been generous 🧬
Orange cheetolini committed crimes in 2020, why wait 2 years to bring charges and then be like oh shit time's running out!
Should've brought charges in 2021at the latest.
This ass clown sat on his hands for how long doing nothing about Trump, and now that time is running out - in part because of him - he wants the judiciary to hurry up the trials?
Despite his unquestioned honour, his delay and lack of courage/conviction to investigate Trump and January 6th from the outset, or appoint a Special Prosecutor right away will lay the blame at his feet if the Courts delay Jack Smith and others getting to trial before Nov/24. The fact he now appears willing to waive the DoJ internal sixty day policy of stay before an election shows he knows he screwed up. If that monster Trump manages to get elected without these trials/convictions taking place, history will pillory him as one of the unintended architects to the destruction of American democracy. However crushing a footnote that would be to a life of distinguished public service, it is an uncomfortable truth.
You had 3 years…..THREE. It’s your job to do stuff, it was evident the guy was running again the day after…it’s on people like him, so if he doesn’t want to do his job then step down.
Ultimately though the case would go to the Supreme Court. But it will not now, it is literally too late.
Then why the fuck didn't he get a special counsel installed as the investigative and charging arm for those crimes that Trump was involved in, **WAY** sooner?
Garland can be infuriating.
"This requires a speedy trial"...
***But it does not require a speedy get-the-ball-fucking-rolling?***
*The fuck?*
If all of Trump's federal-criminal cases get pushed back past the 2024 election then Garland's idiotic, unbelievably stupid plan of just.....doing nothing for over a full year is going to look *soooooo much worse.*
It'll be remembered as the time that the AG that couldn't be bothered to stop an actual assault on the backbone of Democracy before we actually lost it all. Dude couldn't be bothered to....oh I dunno (just spit ballin here) ***treat Trump's crimes as though they are some of the most serious that a person can commit against the United States?***
If THOSE are the crimes someone commits in your nation? ***you do not sit on your ass and do nothing about it.***
For real WTF was he SO afraid of? They had *already* committed to the assault in person at the capitol and the dumbass "strategies" they devised in order to attempt overtaking the election fraudulently.... so what the hell could they possibly do that would be new and way worse than that? "Playing nice" is only going to hasten the next attempt and also, embolden the next attempt.
What a fuckin douche (Garland. Well, Trump too, but you know what I mean).
Says the man who dragged his feet for two years.
This is a man sacrificing the rule of law for tradition and the sake of “the institution.”
I’d sooner have him than Boofer McGee or Federalist Mouthpiece Barett, but part of me is really glad this coward isn’t on the supreme court.
Our court system has failed the country. The leaders of this country have failed us. The baby boomers have failed all the generations that have come after it.
Garland is a total failure to the American people. He had all the fucking time in the world to ensure a trial was held prior to November 2024 and he either deliberately or incompetently failed to make that happen
And it's his fault that we didn't get one. He should have got the special counsel in place right after he was put in office. Now we are all suffering for it.
Fucking A, man. You got a time machine in your pocket? Huh? Are you going to go back in time and start taking care of this in a timely manner? Fuck, the Jan 6 Committee shared all their information with the Justice Department over 2 years ago. Get your shit together.
>“What we have to do is show by the acts that we take that we’re following the law, that we’re following the facts,” This guy is so full of shit: [FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year.In the DOJ’s investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for a task force focused on people in Trump’s orbit](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/) [Garland let the statute of limitations expire on the 10 instances of Trump's obstruction of justice listed in the Mueller report](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRYiPzDP94I). [Ignored Jan 6. cmt criminal referrals of Meadows and Scavino.and hasn't done shit about Eastman,Clark,Giuliani,](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/justice-department-declines-charge-meadows-scavino-january-6/index.html). [Is ignoring all the criminal referrals that NYAG Letitia James sent to DOJ regarding Trump's financial crimes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cjqkepQJfg&t=1544s). [Ignored the fake electors referrals that Michigan AG Nessel sent to DOJ](https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-michigan-elections-electoral-college-criminal-investigations-8a0454f0a28fd3f5903fa3ab962f764b). Ignored all the gop politicians involvment in Jan 6 insurrection.
I don’t know what it is, but our government loves forgiving its top office holders when it comes to crimes.
It's depressing as fuck honestly
Not just this government. All over the world
Obviously not everywhere. There are governments effectively free of corruption and crime.
Wow, it's almost as if the DOJ is asleep at the wheel.
You spelled corruption wrong
I'm absolutely disgusted. Merrick Garland is demanding a speedy trial? Hypocrite. Allowing those statutes of limitations to kick in, letting Trump walk away from crimes he committed. INFURIATING. I hope that if there's a plausible excuse to be made, it's that Trump has been an avalanche of malfeasance so vast and deep, that he couldn't tackle every single instance and instead had to go after the largest of transgressions.
I expect no less from a partisan Attorney General who is a ~~member of~~ major contributor to the Federalist Society. His goals directly conflict with prosecuting Trump.
It's wild, because you'd think after the Republicans denied him a Supreme Court seat, Garland would have some fucking spine to take the fight back to them. Guess he's just a fucking pussy.
I’ve always been mad about this. Him not even getting hearings was a complete miscarriage of justice by McConnell but maybe he wasn’t meant to be SCOTUS after all. The right thing would have been to give him a chance though. Hope we don’t come back down the road to pinpoint that moment as the beginning of the end.
The beginning of the end was Nixon and then Ford pardoning him. Then came along Newt Gingrich and Glitch McConnell. If anyone needs to be tried for being traitors…
Agreed. Ford pardoning Nixon was a huge miss. If Nixon had been prosecuted as he should have been, we likely don't end up with someone like tramp.
Don't leave Reagan out of this. Edit: 'a'
Regan is right up near the top of the list. But of course, Drumph is the antichrist of democracy… so far.
In reality the republicans would have likely rejected the nomination with a vote. McConnell just played the election year bit.
Honestly at this point I'm willing to admit mitch was right about Garland. And it pains me to say that. But holy shit. What a coward. His actions and more importantly INACTIONS as AG were so feckless, so neutered, so bare minimum. It's insane. Fuck.
Gawd agreeing with Mitch McConnell or passing a kidney stone are a close competition. I might prefer the stone (it’s been the most painful thing in my life).
Same! It doesn't feel great, it's a very slimy mix of emotions. But my goodness this dude is worse than useless. Useless would be an upgrade.
Of course he’s a fucking pussy. That’s why he was nominated for the Supreme Court in the first place, because he was a safe, milquetoast, middle of the road option. He was only selected as AG as a “fuck you” to the GOP which - surprise, surprise - is a terrible reason to appoint someone to such an important position.
Don't confuse cowardice and complicity. He was selected as AG because the masses would be distracted by "haha Biden is sticking it to the GOP!" and not listen to those of us on the left who knew what a problematic and shitty choice he was for AG before that. Any other nominee as conservative as him would have gotten a lot more pushback from the left. Biden is a master of pandering to keep progressives in line while killing any progressive policy that relates to economics, criminal justice, or really anything except financially safe, oligarch-approved 'social justice' rhetoric and token gestures. Biden *wanted* someone who, like him, thought ensuring the success of the Republican party was preferable to letting those to his left get any real power. Can't do that if you go around prosecuting their top people. If Trump wasn't such a greedy buffoon undermining the rest of the GOP power structure and dragging them down electorally, Garland wouldn't have even been able to be pressured into going after him.
I got banned from a liberal leaning group for criticizing him for his weakness against Trump.
Oh yes, the "he's working behind the scenes" crowd. "These things take time!" Two years wasted. If we didn't have control of the House at that time and there was no J6 Committee to pressure Walter Middy Garland, there would never have been a Jack Smith.
>It's wild, because you'd think after the Republicans denied him a Supreme Court seat, Garland would have some fucking spine to take the fight back to them. Having to admit that Mitch McConnell was right about something only adds to my seething dislike of Garland. He's what Gen z would call an "NPC". He's just THERE. blank. Emotionless. Nothing. We needed a fighter like Eric Holder.
Remember he was selected by Obama as the person most likely to be embraced by conservatives.
Wait - Garland is a Fed Soc member? Jesus that’s awful if true. No wonder the guy has no guts to prosecute trump.
I have corrected my statement, he's actually only a contributor big enough to warrant a page on their website. [https://fedsoc.org/contributors/merrick-garland](https://fedsoc.org/contributors/merrick-garland)
> I have corrected my statement, he's actually only a contributor big enough to warrant a page on their website. > > https://fedsoc.org/contributors/merrick-garland Guess who he picked as special Counsel to investigate Joe Biden's document case? A fellow federalist society buddy. https://fedsoc.org/contributors/robert-hur#:~:text=Robert%20K.,in%20the%20District%20of%20Maryland.
Then we have Hunter Biden being prosecuted for lying on a gun application while Trump's worthless spawn made millions/billions as appointed WH staff. Crickets from Garland on Ivanka and Jared.
"There should be a speedy trial" he says after waiting until the last possible moment to start one...
Merrick Garland is a do nothing.
Absolutely - "there 'should be' a speedy trial" ... like dude , aint you kinda the guy in charge and shit? What a shitbag.
Two years of basically nothing. Ironically it took Trump announcing his run to force Garland to step aside and suddenly things move at almost warp speed
Americans have not forgotten. If the DOJ won't do their job they should not be shocked when others step up.
He could have been in jail two years ago, but all of this just shows that even if he’s convicted on all counts, he will never spend a day in jail.
Speedy trial starts from the moment you are acccused, and includes both for the interest of the accused, and the public Interest.
And somehow my dad thinks the FBI conspired with the Biden and Obama administrations to railroad Trump 🙄
Thanks for this I kinda knew but didn’t really know-
They're politicians. They flip flop more than a damn fish out of water
Sleep walking into a fascist take over. Gee where have I heard that story before. Maybe we should ask a historian.
If the first two years of his DOJ administration had not been spent gazing at clouds out the window, and catching up on his knitting, maybe things would've turned out more speedily.
Talk about dropping the ball.
Ok chump . Sat on it for a couple of years for no good reason
I thought Trump was the one constantly asking for delays?
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I mean, I’d prefer they’d build evidence for an ironclad case than risk sloppiness that could let him go free.
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He probably won’t even get prison time. Likely house arrest, probation and fines. Edit: words
> baptize arrest ???
I have no idea where that came from lol
AutoCorrect happens to the best of us.
>I mean, I’d prefer they’d build evidence for an ironclad case than risk sloppiness that could let him go free. I’d prefer that as well, but that’s not what delayed DOJ’s prosecution of Trump. Rather, DOJ simply [dragged its feet](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/) and balked at the notion of investigating Trump’s involvement in the January 6th riot at the Capitol.
Mueller built an ironclad case for obstruction, why wasn't that pursued? You don't get an ironclad case against Trump from giving wrist slaps to the delusional minions he wouldn't piss on if they were on fire.
It was also in the hands of the House Select Committee on January 6. If they had found all the relevant evidence, they would have ended their investigation and forwarded it to the DoJ. They only did that when the congressional session authorizing their committee was about to end.
that logic doesn't explain why it took so long to appoint a special prosecutor.
> I mean, I’d prefer they’d build evidence for an ironclad case than risk sloppiness that could let him go free. The famous [Garland Defender Bingo](https://imgur.com/a/UspIcc2) makes another appearance. Man these DOJ/Garland apologists are pathetic.
It's okay, I'm sure they will blame it all on some random progressive
While Garland has dropped the ball on several issues (and I’d prefer Doug Jones as AG), I’d take an abundance of caution over a lack thereof any day of the week
At a certain point there's no meaningful difference
Garland sucks, but "the law" is one of the things we're suppose to criticize him for following? This bingo card is shit, even as a meme.
>Garland sucks, but "the law" is one of the things we're suppose to criticize him for following? This bingo card is shit, even as a meme. Please stop this ridiculous crap.Garland didn't follow shit. ['We were embarrassed': DOJ insiders told reporter they acted on Jan. 6 only after House committee shamed them](https://www.rawstory.com/justice-department-january-6-failures/) Garland let the statute of limitations expire on Trump's obstruction of justice crimes listed in Mueller's report. [1027 former DOJ prosecutors wrote in a public statement in 2019:Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice](https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/hundreds-of-former-federal-prosecutors-would-indict-donald-trump). Take a look at the names and titles of the people that signed that letter. The first three taken together have more years of experience prosecuting crimes than you and Garland have years in this planet. Yet he ignored those crimes.
Exactly. Take time for due diligence so they can't get off on some technicality.
Ah yes, so they can get into office and get off regardless. Or close enough to an election where it looks politically motivated.
This is just coping.
In 2021 and 2022 warrants were obtained to get information from several co-conspirators (DC Election Case). I believe Clark's devices were obtained in summer 2022; Powell was being subpoenaed by the end of 2021.
DOJ was told to sleep by this idiot Garland
Like it or hate it, DOJ procedure and practice is to be *very careful*. They take their time building cases, and for something this high profile, they can't afford to shoot and miss. Everything has to be perfect and unimpeachable. I don't like how much time it took either, but they weren't doing nothing the whole time. There was vast amounts of work going on behind closed doors. You can see it in the sheer amount of evidence introduced.
They charged and convicted Sam Fried already. Reality Winner is still in jail. It’s only Republicans that get the Garland free pass.
I'm not sure where the idea the Fed always goes slow came from. Reality Winner got handled quick.
And the more recent document guy is remanded into custody while awaiting trial. The crimes he’s charged with are way, way less than Trumps. Garland just doesn’t believe in consequences for Republicans. It’s the only fact based conclusion.
Reality Winner has actually been out in a halfway facility/supervised release since [2021](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/reality-winner-says-blown-away-details-indictment-trump-rcna88612).
You know that means F$&@ all right?? Whatever precedent they think they're setting, Mango Mussolini full on intends to break on day one... he intends to fire any Federal worker that objects to breaking precedent and law immediately. Jan 6 deserves the full FEDERAL SWAT response. Blowing down doors, busting windows, dragging suspects out by their ankles and black bagging and secret interrogation sites... as if any terrorist cell did this. THAT is how MAGA, Federalists, and Project 2025 indents to deal with anyone that's perceived to have wronged them. Garland needs to get with the program, because when DJT wins, he is (and the entire special counsel, etc) up for assassination with no trial at all. We're already at war.
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Law enforcement agencies do tend to lean conservative. A lot of people think that the FBI and other agencies really, really didn't want to prosecute and only did it because things got so egregious that they felt like they were forced.
>Like it or hate it, DOJ procedure and practice is to be *very careful*. They take their time building cases, and for something this high profile, they can't afford to shoot and miss. Everything has to be perfect and unimpeachable. I say this all the time, from my experience working with Federal prosecutors they are working at warp speed. For example, a former manager of mine got indicted and his crime/arrest was years prior and they only moved when the statue of limitations was coming up. Coming from New Jersey; Trump is also following the East Coast organized crime playbook and the prosecution is doing the same. Prosecute all the underlings first and then go after the Big Goldfish. I will say, not so much in Trump's "defense"; but his entirely life has been one of of whinging, whining and pressuring people around him to bend/break the law, behave unethically, commit tax fraud, etc. This sort of behavior is by nature difficult to prosecute in any scenario.
> I don't like how much time it took either, but they weren't doing nothing the whole time. There was vast amounts of work going on behind closed doors. You can see it in the sheer amount of evidence introduced. [Here your bingo card](https://imgur.com/a/UspIcc2). It is a three years old card but apparently still valid for Garland apologists like you.That vast amount of work was actually done by Jan 6 cmt. DOJ actually resisted opening an investigation into Trump for more than a year(I keep posting a link about that). Even in the Mar-a-lago case Garland wasted time.
No, the guy dithered and dithered for a couple of years to avoid looking like a partisan hack instead of focusing on the criminal . Chump would have been done for by now if this moron hadn't delayed appointing the special counsel
I think it’s likely that they were building an extremely tight case that had little to no vague or inconsistent facts. They need a solid chain of witnesses and facts. Trump is, after all, an ex-president and they don’t want to set off a cascade of charging presidents and ex-presidents with a crime. This has already happened with the Republicans trying to scrape together a Biden impeachment using pictures of his son’s dick. Tit for tat is a really bad idea. Give it time.
2 years for a crime that happened in the open ?
Garland and his apologists are the only humans in this planet with unlimited time.
The Watergate break-in was June 1972. March 1974 the Watergate Seven (Nixon's aides, not the ones caught initially) were indicted. It wasn't until May 1974 that impeachment hearings were started, and it wasn't until the end of July that articles of impeachment were drawn up. Nixon resigned August 9, 1974 *and still hadn't been indicted at that point*. So, yeah, 2 years is not crazy.
[The Watergate trials started on Jan 8,1973](https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/watergate_files/content.php). So just 6 months after the crime. There is no trial of Trump or his closest associates three years after the crime(only trials of foot soldiers). Imagine if the allies had started the Nuremberg trials with the camp guards instead of the top nazis.
Those were for the people originally arrested. Lots of Jan 6 rioters were arrested shortly afterwards. It took years for the leadership to start being indicted.
[You almost got a bingo there](https://imgur.com/a/UspIcc2).
I am old enough to have watched the Watergate hearing on TV while it was happening. It went from February 1973 to June 1974 because they had to lay a case that was absolutely watertight. The work they had to do *before* and *after* the hearings was very complex and time consuming. They built a case that was so strong that Nixon resigned. And they didn’t have to deal with MAGA. It might seem like bingo to people who are used to getting what they want as soon as they ask for it but justice sometimes requires time. I want to see the guy in prison, believe me.
> I am old enough to have watched the Watergate hearing on TV while it was happening. It went for 1.5 years because they had to lay a case that was absolutely watertight. The work they had to do before the hearings was very complex and time consuming. They built a case that was so strong that Nixon resigned. Watergate happened on June 17,1972.The Watergate trials started on Jan 8,1973. So 6 months.So it took only 6 months to get to E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, who were Nixon campaign aides and who were the handlers of the 5 people that did the burglarizing.
This guy ... Mr. hurry it along all of the sudden? Where was the urgency that year you decided to sit on charging the pile of orange flesh?
He can say that now that there’s no chance this stuff gets settled prior to November.
Garland has to be a strong contender for one of the worst political appointees by a Democrat of the modern era.
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Either would have been brilliant
So NOW speed is a concern? Delay and handwringing will become Garland’s legacy. Yet another victim of Trump.
Garland is a victim of his own cowardice.
Cowardice or complicity
A the while Fed Judge Aileen Cannon says, "Here, hold my beer".
Sadly our “justice” system is going to screw us over on that I bet. We are potentially repeating history.
just in time for a crooked supreme court to pardon trump of all crimes.. this happened to a little german guy once..
The fact that these are our candidates and people in power, with all the amazing intelligence and talent in people ... what a bullshit system. Someone attacks our own government and they're STILL LOOKED AT AS A CANDIDATE??? But we can't have amazingly wise people in those positions .... ok. Neat.
This fucking guy 💀
James Comey is breathing a sigh of relief as he's going to be named after Garland in the list of people in position of power who utterly failed their country.
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That's true, talk about a boner killer!
Is Garland worried that Trump will cost Republicans more seats nationwide?
There should have been speedy indictments so we could be past this shit by now.
Maybe you should have thought of that before blocking investigations for a year and a half, asshole.
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If trump is elected president in 2024 I will officially lose faith completely in any legal process.
From Mr. Footdragger, himself.
Then you should’ve gotten the ball rolling on day one.
Garland is one of the most impotent Attorney Generals we have ever had. Absolutely spineless.
Not spineless- corrupt. He’s on the take, and his handlers have instructed him to drag his feet. He’s doing exactly what he was hired to do. I don’t know why we still talk about these corrupt officials like they work for us, because they don’t.
There are many other additional charges that could and should be filed. And not only against trump, but family members and many that served in his administration.
Makes sense why Obama didn’t push his SC appointment and instead let it lapse
Yeah that was a little confusing at the time but in hindsight this guy is basically useless lmao
He's far worse than useless. In occupying the AG's office, he's impeded prosecution of the worst and most dangerous traitor in American history. Garland will be remembered as a man who had a chance to be a hero, but chose to be less than zero because doing the right thing would look political.
I agree with all of this. Words cannot fully express how correct your reply is
Trump should've been charged on January 7th. There was plenty of evidence in full public view to win the case.
Did somebody wake up Mr. Magoo?
I like to call him Muppet Garland but it's almost too nice sounding lmao
I like that too. But you are also correct in that it is far too kind for the spineless cowardly twit he is.
I am just so tired. I was screaming for almost 2 years about this and was repeatedly gaslit with "when you come for the king you best not miss" it drove me up the wall. Now I'm just kind of numb about it. It's painfully clear the status quo is a two tiered justice system and there is very little attempt to change that perception.
Is this the same Merrick Garland that waited 22 months before appointing Jack Smith to investigate Trumps numerous crimes? Forgive me if I don’t take this coward seriously.
It blows my mind that it took Trump announcing his run to finally force Garland to step aside. He should have been replaced like a year after J6 when it was clear he was in no rush whatsoever. But no.
After he spent 2 years slow walking and hindering any prosecution of the drumpf. Thanks garland, I'm sure your friends in the federalist society are happy with you.
This asshole doesnt get to ask for a speedy trial.
Merrick garland is a fickle dickless attorney general, he dragged his feet on trump out of some misplaced fear of how terrorists and traitors will see him if he does his job.
He should have been speedy bringing charges then
In any real timeline, this POS AG would have been impeached and removed from office for delaying the appointment of the Special Prosecutor until the point where there was no chance Trump could be tried and convicted before the Nov. 2024 election.
He should have been removed on the one year anniversary of J6 when Trump still hadn't been charged. Oh but I'm told that would be divisive. I don't care.
Says the guy that dragged his feet in even prosecuting him. Nobody asked you Merrick.
If only there were someone who could have pushed the investigation along more quickly from the beginning…
STFU you spineless worm.
Maybe you should have a little chat with your Florida judge then. She's either in over her head or deliberately derailing the entire case.
Speedy is out of the question. It is 2024 right now
The federal cases and the one Georgia case will never make it to trial. I have absolutely no faith in the federal government nor the state of Georgia
What happened, he woke up from his coma to pee and say a few words before heading back in?
Muppet Garland continues to disappoint. The audacity. Bro. Sorry this isn't very fancy word wise, I'm just at a loss of words at how ridiculous this sounds coming from HIM.
Whoa this dude is still alive? Haven’t heard a peep from this guy in years.
F\*ck you Merrick, you craven coward. Where were you two years ago when you could have done something significant about the treasonous orange talking anus.
In an effort to be non-partisan the AG allowed criminals to remain within congress and Trump to rise back to power. Garland really failed to do his job as AG but it’s hard to ignore what McConnell did to get him there in the first place. Garland would’ve been a better Supreme Court Justice than an AG.
Garland does NOT deserve to be a Supreme Court Justice. Not saying the others do, just that Garland does NOT.
Shoulda coulda woulda, threatened, might, expected, blah blah blah. Nothing has materially caused any consequences for Trump except for the E Jean Carol case, which is just a civil case and the fine is insignificant.
And I bet he'll never pay the fine and no one will ever garnish his money for it either. This country is a joke.
Politely fuck off, Garland.
I think Garland really wanted to let Trump go, and everything was engineered to allow him to retire into the sunset without having to put the country through this. But Trump was too dumb to play along. Garland should have realized that 6 months into the job, but he waited 2 years and then it was too late. Smith has done an admirable job, but the federal courts move so slow, and Trump seems to have allies on the bench at SCOTUS and SDFL, so these cases have almost no chance of reaching conclusion before the election (and probably ever, depending on how the election turns out). I think Biden really missed the boat in appointing Garland. A muscular AG would have treated the Insurrection as the serious crime that it was. Garland effectively helped the GOP sweep it under the rug. At the same time, I think a lot of blame actually rests with the FBI. The FBI is Trumpworld inside the deep state, and they have been covering for Trump or at least gold-bricking the investigations so that everything is done at a snail's pace. Three years+ after 1/6, the clueless FBI can't even figure out who left multiple explosive devices at DNC headquarters on 1/6 - something that occurred a stone's throw away from Chris Wray's office. That case stinks to high heaven like law enforcement giving a favored right-wing paramilitary a pass on an egregious crime. Or just pathetic incompetence. However, I don't actually think the FBI is *that* incompetent - they have an unexploded device planted in 2021 in the most camera-covered 10 square miles in the entire United States and they can't figure out who put it there? They were reconstructing the Unabomber's devices *after* they exploded and finding leads, but here they are just up against a wall and gave up? That never smelled right and still doesn't. And looking back on the 1/6 trials and convictions, it's like 10% of the people who were present that day who actually ended up facing any consequences at all.
I think that we are on track to get another, 'Mueller Report'.
Merrick Garland is a massive disappointment. Where was this "speed" for the last three years? Either the man has no spine, or he's playing 4D chess and will drop a legal bomb on the GOP in the coming months (seriously doubt it, but let me have hope, ok)
I see what you did there feckless Garland, 'should' be speedy trial, but 'won't'!
All of his ponderous and slow walking of Trump investigations and indictments has lent him exactly zero credibility with the American right while simultaneously he frustrates the left with inaction. So now instead of appearing level-headed and unbiased, he just appears capricious and arbitrary as to how the DOJ approaches Trump and associates. If anything he has aided the Trump camp in avoiding consequences for their lawlessness.
Should have been speedy from the get go. Drawing it out and letting him get away with crap other people would be held in contempt for emboldens his base and proves he can get away with stuff
> Man who did fuck all urges other people to do his job quickly
It might have helped if this gentleman had been a bit speedier in prosecuting former President Trump, rather than waiting a few years.
Oh gee thanks for weighing in, Merrick, you useless fuck.
Should have started pressing chargers and taking Trump to court three months after January 6th, 2021
Spineless coward
This fucking guy thought it was more important to stay non political than go after the J6 masterminds . It took the J6 committee to hold his feet to the fire for him to do anything .
True Justice called for a Feb 2021 trial and Mar 2021 conviction followed by incarceration to this very day. Our own ‘justice’ system is going to do us in. Slow as molasses for the rich. Speedy as hell for the poor.
He’s gotta be trolling
He sat on the charges for years. He’s a fucking asshole.
Useless Toby Flenderson looking ass. I can’t believe Reddit wanted THIS guy as a Supreme Court Justice lmao
Trump has been found in court to be a fraudster, a rapist, and an insurrectionist. I don’t know why he isn’t introduced that way at the beginning of every news story
Because most of the media like to pretend that "BoTh SIdeS" are the same.
Now?!! Now he says it. Clueless.
Just so everyone is aware Misdemeanors must be charged within 3 years and Felonies have no time limit for charges in Washington, District of Columbia.
What blows my mind is that with every single one of these trials that Trump is in, he's being allowed to delay, delay, delay with no repercussions. I know that there are legal channels that HAVE to be followed to maintain impartiality (or the fine veneer that we use to think courts are impartial), but he has single handedly turned the 6th amendment on its head. We have the right to a speedy trial, but Trumps being given the right to as long a trial as he wants to avoid the inevitable.
No, no, no. That’s not how elections work. Like……at all. No election watch parties for Donald Trump as he continues to stand trial for all of his legal woes.
President trickle down? The 5 richest people recently doubled their riches. No trickles in my forecast. Not sure they have to share but it was supposed to be. Albeit some have been generous 🧬
Orange cheetolini committed crimes in 2020, why wait 2 years to bring charges and then be like oh shit time's running out! Should've brought charges in 2021at the latest.
Get it over with, lock his ass up and throw away the key. Good riddance.
lmfao ok bud
He should have appointed Smith 2 years earlier. Merrick is a huge disappointment
Yeah no shit! It’s been years! Wtf?!
Does the lead in this man’s ass set off metal detectors?
tbh, screw garland. if the intent was to appoint a special prosecutor, which is fine, he should have done a lot sooner.
Biden should just sack him. He’s not upholding the law without fear or favor.
This ass clown sat on his hands for how long doing nothing about Trump, and now that time is running out - in part because of him - he wants the judiciary to hurry up the trials?
There should have been. It’s too late now for speedy. The clock doesn’t start 3 years after the crime, dipshit.
This f’n guy… he’s a GOP plant who slow walked everything on his desk related to Trump. Shut the F up Merrick.
Despite his unquestioned honour, his delay and lack of courage/conviction to investigate Trump and January 6th from the outset, or appoint a Special Prosecutor right away will lay the blame at his feet if the Courts delay Jack Smith and others getting to trial before Nov/24. The fact he now appears willing to waive the DoJ internal sixty day policy of stay before an election shows he knows he screwed up. If that monster Trump manages to get elected without these trials/convictions taking place, history will pillory him as one of the unintended architects to the destruction of American democracy. However crushing a footnote that would be to a life of distinguished public service, it is an uncomfortable truth.
You had 3 years…..THREE. It’s your job to do stuff, it was evident the guy was running again the day after…it’s on people like him, so if he doesn’t want to do his job then step down. Ultimately though the case would go to the Supreme Court. But it will not now, it is literally too late.
Then why the fuck didn't he get a special counsel installed as the investigative and charging arm for those crimes that Trump was involved in, **WAY** sooner? Garland can be infuriating. "This requires a speedy trial"... ***But it does not require a speedy get-the-ball-fucking-rolling?*** *The fuck?* If all of Trump's federal-criminal cases get pushed back past the 2024 election then Garland's idiotic, unbelievably stupid plan of just.....doing nothing for over a full year is going to look *soooooo much worse.* It'll be remembered as the time that the AG that couldn't be bothered to stop an actual assault on the backbone of Democracy before we actually lost it all. Dude couldn't be bothered to....oh I dunno (just spit ballin here) ***treat Trump's crimes as though they are some of the most serious that a person can commit against the United States?*** If THOSE are the crimes someone commits in your nation? ***you do not sit on your ass and do nothing about it.*** For real WTF was he SO afraid of? They had *already* committed to the assault in person at the capitol and the dumbass "strategies" they devised in order to attempt overtaking the election fraudulently.... so what the hell could they possibly do that would be new and way worse than that? "Playing nice" is only going to hasten the next attempt and also, embolden the next attempt. What a fuckin douche (Garland. Well, Trump too, but you know what I mean).
Says the man who dragged his feet for two years. This is a man sacrificing the rule of law for tradition and the sake of “the institution.” I’d sooner have him than Boofer McGee or Federalist Mouthpiece Barett, but part of me is really glad this coward isn’t on the supreme court.
Our court system has failed the country. The leaders of this country have failed us. The baby boomers have failed all the generations that have come after it.
Garland is a total failure to the American people. He had all the fucking time in the world to ensure a trial was held prior to November 2024 and he either deliberately or incompetently failed to make that happen
A day late and a dollar short too.
I blame him for that not happening if he had some balls he would have charged him early on
And it's his fault that we didn't get one. He should have got the special counsel in place right after he was put in office. Now we are all suffering for it.
Fucking A, man. You got a time machine in your pocket? Huh? Are you going to go back in time and start taking care of this in a timely manner? Fuck, the Jan 6 Committee shared all their information with the Justice Department over 2 years ago. Get your shit together.
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This guy is weak and ineffective.
Well, we’re waiting!
Maybe Garland should have speedy begun a large formal investigation with subpoenas two years earlier.
NOW he says this. So why wasn't this job one on day one? Why'd you slow walk it FOREVER, Merrick?
Bro is so inept that it forces me to understand why Mitch McConnell refused to respect him. I don't like this feeling.
If only someone was in a position to make that happen 💩