White House Sources: Joe Biden Regrets Dropping Out, Laments Picking Merrick Garland for DOJ
“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…”
It’s fascinating how much is coming out now, post-Election Day, about Joe Biden and his administration, things we all speculated were the case and which ultimately turned out to be true.
For instance, there are the newly released pictures confirming that then-Vice President Biden did meet with Hunter Biden’s Chinese business associates, even though Biden repeatedly denied ever doing so.
There was also the news that the FBI had concluded in 2021 that the COVID-19 pandemic likely began with a Wuhan lab leak stemming from gain of function research, but allegedly failed to tell the President of the United States about it.
And now, just a few short weeks before Biden’s first and only term as president concludes, we’re learning more about his regrets. Among them is the feeling he shouldn’t have dropped out of the presidential race even after the disastrous June debate, thinking he still could have defeated Donald Trump:
Biden and some of his aides still believe he should have stayed in the race, despite the rocky debate performance and low poll numbers that prompted Democrats to pressure him to drop out. Biden and these aides have told people in recent days that he could have defeated Trump, according to people familiar with their comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Aides say the president has been careful not to place blame on Harris or her campaign.
The belief that he could have bested Trump in November has been disputed by Pennsylvania-based journalist Salena Zito, who pointed to the inconvenient fact that Biden was already struggling in the crucial battleground state before the infamous debate:
No, I’m sorry it would’ve never happened. It would’ve never ever happened. He was bleeding voters in Pennsylvania demonstrably even before the debate. Anyone who spent any time on the ground reporting in my home state knows this as church because he had lost the working class.
But while Biden’s belief that he could have been victorious on Election Day could be chalked up to his ego talking, it’s what he reportedly has said about Dept. of Justice Attorney General Merrick Garland behind the scenes that raised more than a few eyebrows:
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.
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….and some Democrats believe the decision had devastating results. 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.
While this is not exactly new news, it does seem to back up earlier reporting noting Biden’s frustrations with Garland were in part politically motivated, but yeah, he’s not a proponent of lawfare or anything:
From NYT, April 2022: https://t.co/HNTZ5cemIj https://t.co/NGDt9f4vQ7 pic.twitter.com/6i2sN7mvqa
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 29, 2024
Joe Biden is reportedly mad that Garland didn’t prosecute his political rival Donald Trump even more aggressively & that his attorney general didn’t shield his son Hunter from the consequences of his extensive criminality aggressively enough, because Muh Democracy™️ or whatever. pic.twitter.com/6HESIwLgC6
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) December 29, 2024
BREAKING: Per the Washington Post, Joe Biden is mad that Merrick Garland did not wage more aggressive lawfare against @realDonaldTrump.
The Post says that Biden regrets picking Garland to be Attorney General. pic.twitter.com/j3Fhu1jvEg
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 29, 2024
One thing to remember about Democrats is that they are almost always guilty of the things of which they accuse Republicans, something that has been proven true once again thanks to Joe Biden.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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Joe is not able to verbalize what he thinks, but they think that he thinks that he’s sorry because he looks like a sad broken man.
What’s that you say? He says he’s sorry, but he’s doesn’t know where he is. Or maybe he’s thinking something else. Maybe his thinker is broken.
To be fair, Joe Biden blamed everyone else for his failures before the dementia. Dementia patients typically are not good at self reflection. So in mimicking Biden’s voice, I think they are sort of spot on.
That’s not dementia. That’s Democrat dogma.
Everything it always someone else’s fault..
He may not know where he is from moment to moment, but is he really any different from the law student that saw nothing wrong in dishonesty. It only continued and accelerated over the years, as everyone now can see.
If he had not come from Delaware, he would have been gone quite early. But that small fishbowl allowed him to corruptly cement himself into the fixtures.
History will not treat him well, for what he did to America and the Constitution. Let’s hope it treats his boss even worse.
Does anyone really care any more about his latest delusions?
“we’re learning more about his regrets”
Joe, we don’t give a F* about your regrets.
Unless you regret your four years of destroying the United States and its citizens.
In which case we agree with you, but you’re way too damn late to matter, so screw you.
Joe is nothing at this point than good for saying the quiet part out loud to the embarrassment of his party.
Why does the FBI have an opinion on COVID origins?
Do we ask the Department of Agriculture about interest rates?
We need bureaucracies to stay in their lanes.
Why the flock do we have 17 “intelligence ” agencies?
Because there has been a persistent suspicion that covid was enemy action.
And the need to deflect any discussion of American involvement in creating the virus.
I recall reading a few weeks ago that when Joe was shoved aside, his own internal polling had Trump winning 400 electoral votes. And frankly, there was no way he could have kept up the schedule he had and the levels of whatever they were giving him through early November. Hiding him like in 2020 wasn’t going to fly either.
As for Garland, Joe is his boss. If he’s not performing to expectations, replace him with someone who will. But it’s more convenient for him to bash Merrick now because, among other things, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that canning him would have set up some very interesting confirmation hearings where Republicans would have been asking very pointed questions about Hunter and Trump.
I don’t understand the Garland angle. It was not DOJ moving too slow, it was Judges stepping in to slow down the reckless speed of Smith in trying to jam a trial in before the election in an overt political fashion.
Torquemada was unavailable … but Garland did pretty well in that respect.
What Traitor Joe really regrets is that his shooters missed.
He is mumbling out loud what the Dems/Left wish to say.
At least Jimmy Carter can now rest in peace as NOT the WORST president in the history of the county. He made it to 100. I can’t wish the same for the living dead at 1600 nor his sycophants.
Carter ceased being the worst President ever when Barky slimed into office. But Carter did his best in his post-Presidency to win back the title … though, unsuccessfully, as with just about everything Carter did.
The effect of Jimmy’s passing at this time, will in effect, suck away every bit of media attention that Biden that would have otherwise received during the last days of his presidency. Basically, we won’t hear any more about Biden until he kicks the bucket.
Or pardons his German Shepherd.
Carter’s presidency is redeemed by only one thing: Jimmy Carter Sparked a Craft Beer Explosion by Getting Government Out of the Way – https://reason.com/2023/02/22/jimmy-carter-sparked-a-craft-beer-explosion-by-getting-government-out-of-the-way/
Obama and Biden can only dream of having such a positive impact on American life.
And it had nothing whatsoever to do with his brother’s craft beer company. Fnord!
Pretty bad when the most crooked president in the last 100 years feels that his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, the most crooked Attorney General in a hundred years is not crooked enough for this president.
Yeah .. amazing, really.
Why only the last 1oo years?
W f cares? He is a tool of his family foreigners and the dem machine. And just a tool in general
Thank God garland (no caps) didn’t become a Supreme Court Justice.
Exactly. What disaster it would have been. We owe McConnell a debt for that one.
Beyond delusional–I just want to know who is picking the list of people to be pardoned or sentences to be commuted, because it doesn’t look like he knows anything at this point
Themselves. It’s so obvious.
He thinks Garland was a bad pick? At least we agree on something.
Garland’s DOJ failed to properly execute the lawfare they claimed they were not doing
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