GOP must drop everything and target Merrick Garland

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  1. Zorro

    Zorro Well-Known Member

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    GOP must drop everything and target Merrick Garland

    'Merrick Garland, Biden’s head of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency, just chose to seek prison time for a former president, the man right now most likely to face off with the current president in 2024.'

    Too many Democrats support this illicit DOJ implementing a Putin Style Autocracy in place of our Constitutional Liberal Democracy.

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    Implementing a Putin Style Autocracy.

    'Republicans must impeach Merrick Garland for attempting to throw a leading presidential candidate in jail over a records-keeping issue.'

    'Yeah, historical government records are important and the government was in its right to retrieve them. The Justice Department is throwing the book at him over classified documents Trump retained, something his vice president, former President Obama, and Joe Biden himself have done', and Crooked Drunken Hillary.

    'There are also charges related to obstruction and conspiracy. Those are charges that Hillary Clinton never faced, even though her set-up of a private email server to conduct government business, which she wiped clean after leaving office as secretary of state, was by definition obstruction and conspiracy.'

    The classified records she illegally destroyed were under subpoena.

    'Merrick Garland has corrupted his office in the persecution of a prominent political opponent who is actively campaigning to unseat Garland’s boss. Garland’s entire tenure has reeked of retribution for having been denied a Supreme Court seat in 2016. He has claimed that white supremacy is the foremost domestic threat to America, by which he means “Trump supporters.” He has directed his department to harass concerned parents who show up at school board meetings. And while he chases down pro-life activists exercising their First Amendment rights, he does nothing to actual domestic terrorists waging a violent war against pro-life pregnancy clinics.'

    He should have never been confirmed. He must be impeached. Please discuss.
     
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    Kevin couldn’t get that nonsense out of committee, much less refer it to the Senate; where it would fail anyway.
     
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    That didn't stop the House from impeaching Trump, for noting in a phone call what has since been verified.

    DOJ Indicts Trump Hours After Biden Bribery News

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    Impeached for a perfect conversation with Zelensky.

    And you were all for that.

    'The news of the indictment quickly suffocated coverage of the Ukrainian founder of Burisma paying a $5 million bribe to Joe Biden. The timing provides for the perfect juxtaposition of the federal government’s handling of the two cases and the media’s coverage of both stories.'

    Election Fixing Abetted By The Lying Fake News Media

    'A country cannot survive two standards of justice meted out based on the political preferences of the prosecutors. Yet that is precisely what Americans are witnessing.'

    'On the one hand, we have the former Republican president who became the target of a politicized Department of Justice and FBI even before he set foot in the Oval Office. Special Counsel John Durham’s report revealed that reality. The attempts to destroy Trump continued throughout his time in office and included attacks by both law enforcement and intelligence agencies.'

    ALL THIS IS KNOWN

    'It isn’t merely that there is one law for the rich and powerful and one for the rest of us. No, the FBI and DOJ have proven they are “the powerful” and will decide which law applies and to whom. Even more devastatingly, they have proved they control the fate of which politicians we are allowed to elect. '

    Time for the House to open an Impeachment Investigation Into Dirtbag Merrick Garland. You claim you can pre-judge the Senate trial, but the evidence production hasn't even begun yet.
     
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    First, everyone but you(apparently) knows the Durham report was a very expensive JOKE. At least Durham had a good time in Italy (on the tax payers dime), you’d hope. I’d hate to think it was a total waste of money.

    Second, anyone trying “to destroy”tRaitor tRump, has been beaten to it …
    … by tRaitor tRump.

    Third, the purpose of Garland appointing a Special Counsel was to ensure a thorough but fair investigation. So that the rule of law would be the same for everyone. Which was emphasized when Jack Smith read the indictment.

    Fourth, AG Garland has done nothing to be impeached for, so he won’t be. Not even by Kevin McCarthy’s laughable excuse of a Republican majority.
     
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    did Trump have the top secret documents, did he refuse to hand them over.... all one needs to know

    now I am not kidding myself, even if found guilty he will never do prison time, even if he violates probation over and over and over
     
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    It’s not just Trump, Garland went after parents, searched high and low to find and prosecute peaceful 1/6 protesters who never walked into the capital, demanded the FBI to bring him white supremacists but they couldn’t find any, all while allowing protesters to protest, dox, and track Supreme Court justices.
     
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    Dirty Merrick and his corrupt DOJ, 'for the first time in U.S. history, the prosecutorial power of the federal government has been used against a former President who is also running against the sitting President. This is far graver than the previous indictment by a rogue New York prosecutor, and it will roil the 2024 election and U.S. politics for years to come.'

    https://archive.ph/xSYiz#selection-301.114-301.443

    While Puppet Jack's lips were moving the American People will rightly see 'this as a Garland-Biden indictment' of Biden's political opponent, who is leading in the polls, announced on the day the FBI was allowing Congress to study the documentation of Ukraine's $5 million bribe of then VP Joe Biden.

    'the indictment never mentions the Presidential Records Act (PRA) that allows a President access to documents, both classified and unclassified, once he leaves office. It allows for good-faith negotiation with the National Archives. Yet the indictment assumes that Mr. Trump had no right to take any classified documents.'
    • If the Espionage Act means Presidents can’t retain any classified documents, then the PRA is all but meaningless.
    • The PRA is not meaningless, therefore,
    • The Espionage Act does not mean that Trump couldn't retain any classified documents.
    'In the court of public opinion, the first question will be about two standards of justice. Mr. Biden had old classified files stored in his Delaware garage next to his sports car. When that news came out, he didn’t sound too apologetic. “My Corvette’s in a locked garage, OK? So it’s not like they’re sitting out on the street,” Mr. Biden said. AG Garland appointed another special counsel, Robert Hur, to investigate, but Justice isn’t going to indict Mr. Biden.

    'As for willful, how about the basement email server that Hillary Clinton used as Secretary of State? According to Comey, 113 emails included information that was classified when it was sent or received. Eight were Top Secret. About 2,000 others were later “upclassified” to Confidential.'

    FBI Director explained it, and left it up to the voters, Dirty Merrick's Corrupt DOJ could have done the same:

    'This is the inescapable political context of this week’s indictment. The special counsel could have finished his investigation with a report detailing the extent of Mr. Trump’s recklessness and explained what secrets it could have exposed. Instead the Justice Department has taken the perilous path' of taking out Biden's opponent that is leading him in the polls.

    'The charges are a destructive intervention into the 2024 election, and the potential trial will hang over the race. They also make it more likely that the election will be a referendum on Mr. Trump, rather than on Mr. Biden’s economy and agenda or a GOP alternative. This may be exactly what Democrats intend with their charges.'

    'And what about the precedent? If Republicans win next year’s election, and especially if Mr. Trump does, his supporters will demand that the Biden family be next. Even if Mr. Biden is re-elected, political memories are long.'

    'However cavalier he was with classified files, Mr. Trump did not accept a bribe or betray secrets to Russia. The FBI recovered the missing documents when it raided Mar-a-Lago, so presumably there are no more secret attack plans for Mr. Trump to show off.'

    'The greatest irony of the age of Trump is that for all his violating of norms, his frenzied opponents have done and are doing considerable damage to democracy.'
     
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    interesting press release

    Testimony Reveals Senior FBI Official Expressed Concerns about Trump Raid

    This information was obtained from the Committee’s transcribed interview of Steven D’Antuono, the former Assistant Director-in-Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Mr. D’Antuono described several abnormalities in the raid.

    According to Mr. D’Antuono, the abnormalities include:


      • The Miami Field Office did not conduct the search.
      • The Department did not assign a U.S. Attorney’s Office to the matter.
      • The FBI did not first seek consent to effectuate the search.
      • The FBI refused to wait for President Trump’s attorney to be present before executing the search.

    https://judiciary.house.gov/media/p...-official-expressed-concerns-about-trump-raid


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    The bigger question "did Trump have declassified top secret documents".. Trump declassified the documents before he left office. He can not be obstructing a non-crime.

    Trump declassified the documents... before he left office..
    https://archive.org/details/trump-declassified-the-documents (signed copy here}
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202100044/pdf/DCPD-202100044.pdf
    https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...to-the-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation
    https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.go...lated-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/
    https://justthenews.com/sites/defau...Declassification of FBI Binder.01.20.2021.pdf
    and Meadows wrote his memorandum to such
    https://justthenews.com/sites/defau...Declassification of FBI Binder.01.20.2021.pdf
     
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    the bigger question is if reelected, will he declassify top secret stuff to show to others next time he leaves office
     
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    So basically, the GOP will go after the AG for simply doing his job? That is just too damn funny.
     
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    Is this a serious thread? A serious topic?
     
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    Does not matter, however, with TSSCI, there are specific procedures in which that document can be declassified. Furthermore, Trump even admitted on said documents that he should have declassified them but didn't, yet still kept them, among other things.
     
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    Why in the world would anyone want to die on the hill that is Trump. The guy has literally been the poster
    boy for the Seven Deadly Sins for decades ... he's not worthy of anyone's time.
     
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    you can't prove he did this time.... so why would that question come up?
     
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    This was decided already in 2012 ... so anything they think they have on him is only a political hack job..
    the judge ruled Clinton could keep any records he wants... so can Trump... Biden was only a VP

    Judge Amy Jackson ruled in 2012 that a president's discretion to declare records "personal" is far-reaching and mostly unchallengeable.
    video here
    https://justthenews.com/politics-po...-tapes-bill-clintons-sock-drawer-could-impact
    https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-co.../JW-v-NARA-Clinton-Tapes-transcript-01834.pdf
    https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1560234754292813827

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    As we go through this one more time....

    This was decided already in 2012 ... so anything they think they have on him is only a political hack job..
    the judge ruled Clinton could keep any records he wants... so can Trump... Biden was only a VP
    Judge Amy Jackson ruled in 2012 that a president's discretion to declare records "personal" is far-reaching and mostly unchallengeable.

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    Hoe does this cover SCI classified documents, it's a canard AKA bull**** from John Solomon the B/S artist.
     
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    Fake News. If he was doing his job, Hunter would be indicted and a sealed indictment would be filed on Joe.
     
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    He's not on trial for a record keeping error he's on trial for absolutely fighting against correcting the "error". Nixon didn't get in trouble for breaking into Watergate nor planning it. If he had turned over the doofusses that did the break in he'd probably have a building named for him after completing his 2nd term.
     
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    What is scary, is this ridiculous argument is not being made by just some anonymous poster on an internet forum, but has been snipped from a so called journalist, the Federalist's Eddie Scary.

    He is out of the box, immediately, with such a huge factual flub, that it undoes & makes moot, the entire rest of the argument. To wit, the decision to indict Trump was made by:
    1) a Florida Grand jury, in concurrence with
    2) Special Counsel Jack Smith.
    All AG Garland did, was sign off on it-- and what possible excuse was there for him to ignore the Grand jury's decision?

    https://www.npr.org/live-updates/trump-indictment-documents-grand-jury

    <Snip>
    The case was handled by a special counsel to avoid the appearance of any political interference from the Biden administration. (Former Assistant Attorney General, for the DOJ's Criminal Division, Leslie) Caldwell said it's "quite possible" to separate the actions of DOJ from the administration itself.

    "That's really kind of the whole idea of a
    special counsel is to separate them from political influence and also from the Justice Department itself, so that they will be operating independently and will exercise their own judgment, obviously subject to the approval or veto by the Department of Justice by the attorney general," Caldwell added. "I think everyone involved is extremely careful to make sure that those lines don't get crossed.
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    Jack Smith, for the uninformed, is not a Democrat, but is a registered Independent voter. And
    he is the one who prosecuted Jonathan Edwards. So much, for this being partisan "persecution."

    The only person responsible for Trump's predicament, is himself. Note that none of the documents which Trump returned to the Archive in January of 2022, after being asked, are included in this charging document. Had Trump returned all the stolen documents, instead of trying to conceal his continued possession of many, there would be no prosecution.


    Since you apparently endorse Mr. Scary's thesis, I will ask you: do you feel all former Presidents should be above the law, immune from prosecution, no matter what they might do?
     
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    Hotair.com? LOL! It's no wonder the country is so polarized when a large number of people get their "news" from these garbage, hyperpartisan outlets. It's not like the first sentence gives it away:

    "All the things that Americans are coping with thanks to Joe Biden’s complete horror of a presidency...".

    It's kind of ironic, though, that the "lock her up, lock her up.." crowd gets angry about the other side "targeting" their hero, when they want nothing less than destroy the political opposition and throw them into jail. I bet, however, that the "hotair.com" readers can't see this irony. Their partisan blinders are too thick.
     
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    An amusing variation on attacking the messenger who brings bad news.

    Regards, stay safe 'n well.
     
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