On Thursday, as we covered at the time, Attorney General Merrick Garland made some rather tone deaf remarks claiming that the Department of Justice's (DOJ) "norms" are "a promise that we will not allow this department to be used as a political weapon."
Gabbard brought up how a weaponized and politicized DOJ has been used against former and potentially future President Donald Trump as well, noting that "there's too many to cite," but that they "have been made very clear to the American people and those paying attention with any objectivity, that this is lawfare, this is the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships and authoritarian governments, where those who are in power, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, are weaponizing and politicizing the [DOJ] and law enforcement agencies, both at the federal level and the state level, to take out their political opponent, the greatest threat to their power in a way that has never been done... before in our country's history.
Garland was promptly called out for such remarks, by the Trump-Vance campaign, as well as former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, once a Democrat, now an Independent who is on the Trump transition team.
"I would tell Merrick Garland today, if you are serious about the words you have just delivered to the American people, why don't you start by investigating some of your own federal agencies, like the Department of Homeland Security and TSA and ask them why after one day, the very next day after I called out Kamala Harris for being a danger to our country, should she be elected as president, I got added to a secret domestic terrorist list," Gabbard continued, noting "that's a good place to start."
Despite the revelations shared by Gabbard about Friend, Garland also claimed during his Thursday's remarks that "there is not one rule for friends and another for foes... one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans."
Gabbard spoke of other instances other than her own, such as how FBI Agent Steve Friend "blew the whistle on how the FBI is being essentially used as the Democrats' police force, their personal partisan police force," and then "was attacked by the leadership of the FBI," through doxxing and exposure of his personal medical records.
That same night, Gabbard spoke with Fox News' Laura Ingraham about her thoughts on Garland's speech, as Doug P at our sister site of Twitchy covered.
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