Attorney General Merrick Garland played the victim today after two IRS whistleblowers claimed the DOJ interfered with the investigation regarding Hunter Biden’s $2.2 million tax debt. What a baby.
A lot of people have a problem with the sweetheart deal given to Hunter over his tax debt and felony gun charge. He’s basically getting a slap on the wrist.
To Garland, you cannot criticize the DOJ. Without the DOJ, America wouldn’t exist or something. Get over yourself, Garland:
GARLAND: “I certainly understand that some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department, its components and its employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people. Nothing could be further from the truth. You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. These are not just words, these are what we live by. They’re the foundation of the way we make these decisions. The agents of the FBI as well as the DEA, the ATF, our deputy U.S. Marshals every day, often at great personal risk, protect the American people and secure its safety. Our cases are based on their work. I could not be more proud to work with them.”
Garland: "Some have chose to attack the integrity of the Justice Department by claiming that we do not treat cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy… Nothing could be further from the truth." pic.twitter.com/fHkHPUiNyn
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 23, 2023
But what about those whistleblowers? Their testimonies sound like the DOJ tax office made sure to stop any investigation into Hunter.
I’m so glad Grabien has transcripts:
GARLAND: “I said at the outset, Mr. Weiss, who was appointed by President Trump, as the U.S. Attorney in Delaware and assigned this matter during the previous administration, would be permitted to continue his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to and in any district in which he wanted to. Mr. Weiss has since sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee confirming that he had that authority. I don’t know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he has this authority.”
REPORTER: “And he was never told no.”
GARLAND: “So, he was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland denies IRS whistleblower allegations that he interfered with the Hunter Biden case:
“[David Weiss] was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own.” pic.twitter.com/SEMLcK6Wk2
— The Recount (@therecount) June 23, 2023
GARLAND: “The only person with authority to make somebody a special counsel or refuse to make somebody a special counsel is the Attorney General. Mr. Weiss never made that request to me.”
Weiss had the authority:
GARLAND: “Mr. Weiss had in fact more authority than a special counsel would’ve had. He has complete — he has — he had and has complete authority, as I said, to bring a case anywhere, he wants in his discretion.”
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We all knew Biden was dirty and Hunter was a crackhead liar.
However, the latest whistleblower surprises were how hare the IRS and DOJ worked to protect Biden during the Trump Administration. Barr was certainly involved in whitewashing for the Deep State.
They’re all treasonous maggots.
Then there’s this treasonous maggot:
Obama: Fox News, Right-Wing Radio Skews Facts, Makes People Fearful of Each Other:
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/06/22/obama-fox-news-right-wing-radio-skews-facts-makes-people-fearful-of-each-other/
Barr was not as bad as Garland or Holder but the bottom line is that he was and is an establishment political actor from the Bush/Cheney machine. When he defended Trump against the Russian collusion charges it was more about the defense of the Presidency than exposing a coup to topple the Trump administration.
But for Barr and Jeff Sessions, our country would not be in the position it is today.
Barr was never going to sake serious action against the FBI, or recommend any against the IRS or any “USIC” agency. He was a Bushie, and a former spook. Every one of those Federal agencies was precious to him.
He knew that Hunter Biden was being investigated while Donald Trump was being impeached the first time, for allegedly seeking to “dig up dirt” on Joe Biden in Ukraine. Did nothing to help Trump.
On his way out of office, after the CIA had made sure media coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop would be discredited or suppressed, Barr declared that the CIA had “stayed in its lane” during Russiagate. Sure it had.
Merrick Garland should thank Bill Barr, for making his own dirty work easier.
This guy is such a punk ass bitch.
Garland is to law enforcement what Jussie Smollett is to hate crime.
More like Heinrich Himmler or Lavetny Beria.
Fauci claimed to be ‘The Science’ now Garland claims to be ‘The Law’? Who had Garland as Judge Dredd on this weeks bingo card?
In the time you have been festering your hate for the left because you didn’t get don’t the SCOTUS gig, you conducted raids at 4 am on several on the right but you gave a pass to the left most of all Hunter.
Liberal Playbook: when you know you lost and you have nothing else claim victimhood.
And just think: Merrick Garland could have been a SCOTUS Associate Justice, appointed for life.
Am I alone in feeling like we dodged a bullet with that one?
(Or in thinking that “Merrick Garland” is a name you might give the Big Bad Guy in a sci-fi/fantasy novel?)
Just think Merrick Garland will be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He is racking up too many brownie points to not be the choice.
Name me the GOP Senators who will vote to confirm him.
Mitt Romney
Mitch McConnell
Lisa Murkowski
Susan Collins
Mitch and the gals would. They voted for him for the AG position.
Instead of this lunatic Garland, we got a useful idiot named Ketanjui Jackson.
No, we got Gorsuch.
You are not alone.
Otto von Bismarck Said this:
“There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.”
It worked overtime on SCOTUS from from 2016 to 2020.
Garland and the WH are engaged in full court full time spin-Another poster elsewhere noted that while Garland said that Weiss has the authority to prosecute and to bring any case he wants to. He did NOT say that there would be no (or has been no) effort to block any investigation that Weiss wanted to, or currently wants to, proceed with. Garland is being careful to not out-and-out lie while not addressing the real issue
Sounds like Joseph Goebbels in the early days.
Democrats Other Jurisdiction
As far as I can tell, Merrick Garland has never been elected anything.
But he did swear an oath that apparently is a joke to him:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Oops – wrong oath (the one Biden took and violated). But you get the picture.
Neither has Clarence Thomas.
Report: MTG just broke to Kudlow…
She has filed impeachment charges against Wray and Garland. Next is Biden. “High crimes and misdeameanors!” Treason”
Notice that MTG, Gaetz or Boebert are the only faces of doing the right thing. The rest of the GOP hacks are hiding in the shadows, either hoping they fail or looking to jump on their coattails if they gain traction.
But don’t have any false hopes about the GOP being on board for anything loyal to their oathes of office. They’re just too corrupted.
One of Garland’s defenses is that the judge was appointed by Trump. So, the attorney general of the United States is admitting that judges are generally political hacks.
You mean the US Attorney?
No, I mean Judge Maryellen Noreika whom the sweaty, quivering, quavering weasel referenced in his gutless apologia the other day.
My real question is how the judge will accept the plea deal. Accepting it may tarnish him.
I can’t help think Garland got his inspiration for this statement from a scene in Animal House.
https://www.voicetube.com/videos/2719
Question for the legal minds: Is a judge required to accept a plea deal? Can the judge reject it? What happens if he/she does? Is it a “do-over” or does the guilty plea stand and the judge can do his/her own sentencing calculus?
All the talk about judges accepting plea deals between prosecutors and defendants, but I’ve never been clear on what happens if a judge does NOT find the deal acceptable.
https://www.justice.gov/usao/justice-101/pleabargaining
Excerpt
A defendant may only plead guilty if they actually committed the crime and admits to doing so in open court before the judge. When the defendant admits to the crime, they agree they are guilty and they agree that they may be “sentenced” by the judge presiding over the court — the only person authorized to impose a sentence.
Just like “I am science!” Fauci.
What he is saying functionally [although I am sure that he and others believe it] is that disagreeing with or opposing what the Coercive Organs of State Power do in any instance is an act of rebellion against the State itself; which implies that the Coercive Organs of State Power may at their will step in.
Subotai Bahadur
With the mainstream media papering this thing over and riding shotgun for Biden (mix those metaphors!), this will all die a natural death. NOTHING will come of it.
If the media were doing its job and exposing this hard evidence, DOJ and Garland would HAVE to follow up. But they have the OceanGate Titan to focus on, so the corruption from the Biden family simply fades by the wayside..
Next week, there will be another revelation, but the media will find some other meaningless story to promote to distract us.
We don’t have a freakin’ chance.
With the mainstream media papering this thing over and riding shotgun for Biden (mix those metaphors!), this will all die a natural death.
“Smothered in the cradle” is not a natural death.
Garfinkle is a soroesque Kspo and his daughter is a kurveh
Kapo
“You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. These are not just words, these are what we live by.”
Some reporter ought to ask him when he believes that practice started? If he actually believes it to be true, it would be interesting to hear his explanation for all the “Get Trump” crap that DoJ has been heavily involved in since before his tenure.
Yeah, that quote.
It just so happens that the facts and the law always exonerate progressives, but always crucify conservatives. Every time, without fail.
There are in fact emails already made public that show Garland is lying again. To wit, a memorandum of a meeting with the IRS and the assigned prosecutor. Where he states he lacks authority to prosecute.
To parse and correct his statement:
“I certainly understand that some have chosen to point out the lack of integrity of the Justice Department, its components and its employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people. Nothing could be further from the truth. You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. These are just words, these are what we pretend to live by. Lip service is the foundation of the way we make these decisions. The agents of the FBI as well as the DEA, the ATF, our deputy U.S. Marshals every day, often at little personal risk, undermine the American people and their safety. Our cases are based on their pretense of work. I could not be more proud to use them.”
This is what he was really saying. Nowhere did he say he wasn’t doing the Marxist’s/Biden’s dirty work. Nice of Garland to list his stooges.
Since when has the Democrat Office of Justice been essential to American democracy? Is it a legacy of the 13 colonies? Was it established by the Founding Fathers? Did the Constitution create it? Or is it a dinosaur that’s (d)evolved over time and become politicised and partisan, no longer fulfilling its original intent?
Powerline has the “smoking gun” showing that Garland is a lying sack of buffalo waste:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/on-merrick-garland-a-smoking-gun.php
Read the e-mail from the IRS whistleblower who notes that Weiss is NOT the one with decision-making authority on whether or not charges are to be filed…inconsistent even then with Garland’s statements and sworn testimony.
Probably still too low a bar for “high crimes and misdemeanors” under which Garland could be impeached, unless it could be directly proven that his actions related to (P)resident Biden rather than his son. Cross your fingers.
On Thursday, former President Barack Obama complained the frivolous indictment against 45th President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump doesn’t disqualify him from running for President in 2024.
During an interview on CNN’s “News Central,” host Amanpour said, “The spectacle of a former president being federally indicted. How is the rest of the world, the democratic world, maybe even the non-democratic world meant to interpret that indictment and indeed the fact that a federal indictee is running, is able to run for the highest office in the land, maybe even the world?”
Mr Obama was one of those folks who got the August 2016 briefing that Hillary was working on a “malinformation fart” that went on to damage the Office of the President over the next four year and he did nothing to stop the damage. Just call him “Mr Obama” as he doesn’t deserve the other title.
Merrick Garland should be impeached. Then we could have an honest discussion about these matters, and he would have his “day in court” before the Senate to explain many troubling issues.
Based on what I see now, he should be removed from office. But I am glad he would have a chance to defend himself first.
What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.
–Adam Carolla
True, and the risks of the former methods are now too high. I will fully embrace lawfare. I want to turn the legal machinery, that Merrick Garland has been operating, against him.