There is no question the handling of the Hunter Biden matter-which included a sweetheart plea offer, direct communication between Biden's legal team and a top DOJ official, Biden-appointed prosecutors refusing to bring charges, and delayed appointment of a special counsel resulting in a low-level gun charge among other chicanery-singularly refutes Garland's claims.
Lurking behind DOJ's braggadocious data about the January 6 investigation are details that directly contradict Garland's claims of an apolitical DOJ. To begin, most defendants are Trump voters who traveled to D.C. to show their support for the president and demonstrate against the man who appointed Garland as attorney general.
DOJ has asked for terror enhancements for defendants convicted of seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding.
With the imprimatur of D.C. judges, Garland's DOJ is creating a new list of federal terrorism crimes that will endanger the exercise of political speech for the foreseeable future.
Demands for pre-trial detention: Out of the box, Garland's DOJ began seeking pre-trial detention for Trump supporters on charges ranging from assaulting police to conspiracy to obstruction of an official proceeding.
Opposition to change of venue motions: No one in their right mind believes a Trump supporter can get a fair trial in Washington, D.C., a city that voted 92 percent for Joe Biden and views the events of January 6 far differently than the rest of the country according to jury surveys-no one, that is, except for DOJ prosecutors.
In opposing change of venue for the first Oath Keepers trial, DOJ downplayed the committee's description of January 6 as an "Insurrection" by noting "Several judges have already found that what the rioters did at the Capitol on January 6 was an 'insurrection.'" Even as the select committee specifically focused on the Proud Boys, mentioning the defendants by name, DOJ insisted that "The Select Committee hearings are simply not a reason to transfer venue out of the District of Columbia." So much for Merrick Garland protecting the Sixth Amendment rights of a defendant.
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