What kind of iirresponsible idiot was Merrick Garland?

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112. I've written extensively on this, providing receipts.

...zero of the critics that respond to me have provided anywhere near the same.

I daresay, none of them have provided ANY evidence to back up their claims, except to point to the time passed while Garland was AG.

It makes little sense to deride someone for an evidenced defense while, at the very same time, providing nothing at all to back up what you're saying.

I'm a completist. I've brought actual receipts to those discussions.

But tell us, do you believe delaying an indictment from trial which came down in Aug. 2023, more than enough time to try in court until it was made moot in Nov. 2024, is some normal and proper action by the judges and justices? In what universe?

Did you miss that the Supreme Court delayed their hearing for months, and delayed their decision for even more months until right before the election?

Are we supposed to ignore that treasonous interference in the election and the judges and justice's anti-constitutional immunity rulings and pretend it's actually the people prosecuting him are the ones at fault?

The expectation that I should be ashamed of stating facts in dispute of blaming the people working overtime to prosecute Trump is mindblowingly Orwellian.

I'm always surprised how people persist with these inanities with me, of all people. Curious. I'm always going to respond with facts.

We're talking about the man appointed Jack Smith, on his own, in the face of the very same critics who started out claiming he was appointed to slow the probe.

Claiming Garland could, or should have just come into office and prosecuted Trump for obstruction of justice in the Mueller case is so legally flawed that it's amazing that anyone would think this is a representation of how our justice system works, much less try to convince anyone with just a basic understanding of the law.

But this complaint that Garland was late to the prosecution of Trump, or didn't want to prosecute has been refuted so many times...

The man not only prosecuted thousands of Capitol rioters, convicted hundreds of the white supremacists of charges up to the sedition and interference of government that is directly associated with Trump's criminal efforts; the man appointed the SC on his own volition who brought two historic multi-felony indictments against a former president.

Pretending, as his critics do, that he was less concerned with the swift prosecution of Trump than than these backbiters who can't even be bothered to look at the details of the prosecution and discuss them is just silliness.

But let me make this perfectly clear. Almost ALL of the critics are drafting off of the SAME WaPo article by Carol Leonning, which talks about some internal dispute that someone leaked to her, a report which was so negligently false and incomplete that it's basically fiction.

receipts:

___ Jack Smith takes over a staff that’s already nearly twice the size of Robert Mueller’s team of lawyers who worked on the Russia probe.  A team of 20 prosecutors investigating January 6 and the effort to overturn the 2020 election are in the process of moving to work under Smith, according to multiple people familiar with the team.

Smith will also take on national security investigators already working the probe into the potential mishandling of federal records taken to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House.

Together, the twin investigations have already established more evidence than what Mueller started with, including from a year-long financial probe that’s largely flown under the radar.

“Mueller was starting virtually from scratch, whereas Jack Smith is seemingly integrating on the fly into an active, fast-moving investigation,” said Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor and senior CNN legal analyst.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel-high-profile-moves-trump-criminal-investigations/index.html


____the other investigative team, looking at efforts to block the transfer of power from Trump to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election, had even a year ago been given the greenlight by the Justice Department to take a case all the way up to Trump, if the evidence leads them there, according to the sources. Work that’s been led by the DC US Attorney’s Office into political circles around Trump related to January 6 now will move under the special counsel.

Partly led by former Maryland-based federal prosecutor Thomas Windom, DOJ has added prosecutors to the January 6 team from all over the department in recent months. Windom and the rest are also expected to move over to the special counsel’s office. Some, like Mary Dohrmann, a prosecutor who’s worked on several other Capitol riot cases already, appear to be reorienting, according to court records of open Capitol riot cases.   

Another top prosecutor, JP Cooney, the former head of public corruption in the DC US Attorney’s Office, is overseeing a significant financial probe that Smith will take on. The probe includes examining the possible misuse of political contributions, according to some of the sources. The DC US Attorney’s Office, before the special counsel’s arrival, had examined potential financial crimes related to the January 6 riot, including possible money laundering and the support of rioters’ hotel stays and bus trips to Washington ahead of January 6.

In recent months, however, the financial investigation has sought information about Trump’s post-election Save America PAC and other funding of people who assisted Trump, according to subpoenas viewed by CNN. The financial investigation picked up steam as DOJ investigators enlisted cooperators months after the 2021 riot, one of the sources said.

In interviews with people in Trump’s orbit over the past several months, some of the DOJ focus has been on the timeline leading up to January 6 and Trump’s involvement and knowledge of potential events that day, according to a source familiar with the questioning.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel-high-profile-moves-trump-criminal-investigations/index.html

Before Jack Smith was appointed, Merrick Garland:

Seized John Eastman's phone
Seized Jeffrey Clark's phone
Seized Scott Perry's emails
Seized Eastman's emails
Seized Epshteyn's phone
Seized Mike Lindell's phone
Seized Mike Roman's phone
Seized Scott Perry's phone
Got Kash Patel's testimony
Appointed Windom
Appointed Cooney
Subpoenaed the fraudulent electors
Subpoenaed 7 state's election officials
Subpoenaed Sidney's PAC
Subpoenaed Rudy
Opened IG probe into Clark
Opened IG probe into DoJ response to 1/6
Negotiated subpoena for Meadows
Battled the 11th circuit for classified docs
Subpoenaed trump for classified docs
Subpoenaed trump for surveillance video
Executed a search warrant on trump
Convicted Bannon of contempt
Indicted Navarro for contempt
Subpoenaed the speakers from 1/6
Subpoenaed the organizers of 1/6
Secured seditious conspiracy convictions
Subpoenaed records for any member of congress involved in 1/6
Subpoenaed info on Jenna Ellis
Secured testimony from Mark Short
Secured testimony from Jacob Engel
Secured testimony from Philbin
Secured testimony from Cippollone
Subpoenaed info on trump's PACs
Won privilege battles for Short, Engel, and the Pats
Negotiated for Pence's subpoena
Seized the phone records of Meadows
Secured the 1/6 committee transcripts
Subpoenaed 7 secretaries of state


...show me ONE DOJ which has brought more charges against republicans than this one, and has opened more investigations into republicans than Merrick Garland's.

There isn't any one that comes even close.