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Merrick Garland was the wrong man at the wrong time, and we may never recover from his time as A.G.. He had one really, really important task, and it wasn't to facilitate the harassment of Hunter Biden.

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Garland searched Mar a Lago, indicted and arrested Trump twice, and had two trials scheduled well before the election. SCOTUS stopped them. Where Garland failed was not firing the trump DBI holdovers that hamstrung him quickly enough. He wanted to follow “norms” about that.

Garland named a special prosecutor 23 months after becoming AG. I believe we had one democrat in congress calling for special prosecutors in 2021. I don't believe Garland would have named Smith without threats from Americans like me. Garland shouold have been prosecuted for aiding and abetting.

Things also got out of whack, or call it reasonableness, when RBG did not resign and give Obama a chance to replace her.

I think you are right about the charges. I think the other mistake was treating Trump like a white collar criminal instead of a mobster. Garland should have moved to revoke his bond and lock him up for every violation. Make the judges decide to keep him out.

They were waiting on a SCOTUS decision about venue. Trump would have moved to dismiss a case filed in DC . Smith didn’t want to incur the risk that SCOTUS would issue a decision requiring dismissal or moving the case to Cannon’s district and having to start all over.

Had democrats wanted Trump prosecuted, they would not have nominated Garland, they would have nominated a junkyard dog like Holder or Lynch. Pelosi on repeat, "we need to move on", "republicans will retaliate". Republicans always retaliate, give them a real reason to retaliate.

No. They didn’t. If Garland was working with the heritage foundation he wouldn’t have searched Mar a Lago or indicted Trump twice. It was SCOTUS that stopped the trials. And they DEFINITELY work with Heritage.

Robert Mueller left Garland a roadmap for at least 4 indictments for felony obstruction of justice. I'll never understand why they were not pursued at all, much less on day one...

I actually thought the opposite - that the qualities that might have made him a good SC justice probably made him a BAD choice for AG.