Without any doubt, one of the worst aspects of the Biden-Harris regime has been Attorney General Merrick Garland. In this colorless and self-righteous apparatchik, the people who are running Old Joe Biden have had a willing henchman who has seemed to care nothing for the republic as it has been constituted since 1789, and has been happy to join in the work of destroying it.
Old Joe himself, however, is apparently not so happy with the loyal Merrick, or at least not anymore. Now that the Democrats’ hopes for 2024 have come to nothing and their vast project of destroying America as we know it and replacing it with a Third-World socialist internationalist pesthole have had to be put on hold, Biden has been a bit loose-lipped, and has started to point fingers at those he thinks are responsible for the authoritarian dumpster fire that has been and is his presidency. The hapless Garland, in Old Joe’s jaundiced post-election eye, has been a massive disappointment.
Now, you might think this means that somewhere deep inside, Biden still has a conscience, and that he now regrets taking a wrecking ball to the American justice system in pursuit of his desire to destroy Donald Trump. You’d think wrong. Old Joe is annoyed with Garland for not destroying the republic quickly enough. The Washington Post reported Saturday that “in private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as attorney general, complaining about the Justice Department’s slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden’s son Hunter, according to people familiar with his comments.”
Slowness? Now, this is something new. Back in Aug. 2022, the Biden White House wanted us to believe that Garland was going much too quickly. At that time, the regime insisted that it only found out about the twilight-of-the-republic raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home when the establishment media did, and not a moment before. Garland contended that it was not Old Joe who was behind the idea of unleashing the feds upon the president’s principal foe. Garland announced: “I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter.”
The unctuous hatchet man reminded Americans that the search warrant “was authorized by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause.” He didn’t mention, of course, that the judge who authorized the warrant was an Obama donor and Jeff Epstein’s old lawyer. But this out-of-control authoritarian did go heavy on the disingenuous flag-waving: “Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department, of our democracy. Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor. Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing.” Yeah. Raiding the home of the president’s chief rival on the flimsiest of pretexts — that’s certainly what I think about when I think of what it means to apply the law even-handedly.
The Trump raid was a watershed event in American history, representing the complete breakdown of the mutual respect that the competing factions in American political life have always had for one another, and the conversion of what are supposed to be politically neutral law enforcement organizations into weapons of partisan politics. And this was, according to Merrick Garland at least, the handiwork of none other than Merrick Garland.
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Now, however, at least as far as Old Joe is concerned, Garland was far too soft-hearted and languid in his pursuit of Bad Orange Man. The Post sums up Biden’s thinking — or more precisely, the thinking of Biden’s handlers, since Old Joe clearly isn’t doing too much thinking these days: “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.”
There you have it. The whole point of it all was to force Trump to face “a politically damaging trial before the election.” It didn’t work, and that’s Garland’s fault. The fact that Trump did not actually try to overturn the 2020 election or mishandle classified documents doesn’t enter into the calculation here at all, because the establishment media and the Democrats may find those falsehoods useful to trot out again later. So someone has to be made the fall guy. That seems to be the job for which Merrick Garland is being groomed now, as faithful a servant to the authoritarian left as he has been. Sorry, Merrick. When you fall in with cutthroats, this kind of thing is bound to happen.
