Sunday, August 14, 2022

AG Merrick Garland's Raid Of Trump's Mar-A-Lago Is A Farce Of Law

AG Merrick Garland

  • After orchestrating one of the biggest events in the history of the Department of Justice, Garland proved himself too small for the moment
  • Whether he volunteered or was pushed into authorizing the unprecedented FBI raid on the home of former President Donald Trump, he was woefully unprepared for the predictable fallout.
  • Gallup has tracked Americans' confidence in 14 institutions for decades, and the criminal-justice system ranks close to the bottom of the barrel
  • It won the confidence of just 20% of respondents last year, beating out only big business, TV news, and Congress, which registered a measly 12%.

Running a leaking ship

  • Within hours, and long before the warrant was made public, headlines from numerous outlets friendly to the administration began with words like "FBI seized" and "FBI recovered" before going on to describe how many boxes of documents agents took and what was in them.
  • Trump remains the most-desired Republican candidate for 2024.

'Anonymous' dodge

  • While the possibility that Trump broke laws by taking and holding the documents cannot be dismissed, the hysterical reaction of a raid belies the fact that the government had retrieved 15 boxes of documents from him in January and negotiations continued until June.
  • How is it, then, that Garland decided he needed a raid to retrieve remaining documents that left the White House 19 months ago when less radical options are available?

Hunter on back burner

  • An investigation in its fifth year with not a single charge is more of a cover-up than an investigation
  • Perhaps Hunter was sending the message that he's untouchable when a photo showed him whispering in his father's ear as they climbed the steps of Air Force One last week for a vacation flight to South Carolina.

Salman's blood on Joe's Iran deal

  • Reports that Iranian leaders celebrated the brutal stabbing of Salman Rushdie are yet more proof that President Biden is on a fool's errand in trying to rejoin the Iranian nuclear deal.
  • Biden must come to his senses and drop his courtship with evil.

Stinking feeling in Nov. 8th polls

  • Paula Tanny doesn't have much hope for New York or Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin

https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/ag-merrick-garlands-raid-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-is-a-farce-of-law/

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