With Trump's Return Imminent, Dems Now Direct Their Seething Anger Toward One Man
Matt Vespa
It’s astonishing how Democrats can’t accept defeat or take accountability. With Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, they’re directing their frustration and anger at one man: Attorney General Merrick Garland. Why? Well, because he dithered and didn’t aggressively pursue the phantom charges against Trump, which could have led to his being convicted or something. I don’t know—it’s hard to rationalize people who have a mental illness. It’s funny how they’re slamming the Department of Justice for being terrible at their jobs. The best is the opening line from The Huffington Post, where anger over January 6 was seemingly a bipartisan event—it wasn’t. No one cared except Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans, all three of them (via HuffPost):
“We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one,” [Sen. Mitch] McConnell said.
That never happened, and many Democrats are ready to place the blame on one man: Attorney General Merrick Garland. They argue he waited too long to appoint a special prosecutor, which allowed Trump and his legal team to stall the case long enough for Trump to win the presidency a second time. Garland made the appointment in November 2022, saying he’d done so partly because Trump had just formalized his bid for the presidency.
The announcement also followed a series of high-profile public hearings by a bipartisan House committee airing the evidence against the former president
“Garland only started the prosecution after he was in effect forced to by the report of the Jan. 6 committee and the criminal referral,” former House Judiciary Committee chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) told HuffPost. “The evidence the Jan. 6 committee used was available from the beginning.”
“Had they proceeded with those prosecutions, I think he would have been convicted and we’d have a different president now,” Nadler said. “Merrick Garland wasted a year.”
Nadler is not alone in thinking so. The Washington Post reported last month that President Joe Biden has expressed regret about picking Garland, believing the nation’s top law enforcement officer took too long to pursue Trump after Jan. 6.
Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), members of the Jan. 6 committee, also told HuffPost they thought Garland waited too long.
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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who served on the House select committee that investigated the attack, said the Justice Department “moved with expedition when it came to the people who broke into the building, but were those at a higher level, they waited almost a year on.”
“That was a fatal mistake,” he added.
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