Below is my column in The Hill on the concerning record of Attorney General Merrick Garland on a variety of recent matters, including a frivolous privilege claim to withhold the audiotape of President Joe Biden during the Hur interview. There is a certain corruption of judgment that is evident from this and other decisions by Garland since he became Attorney General.
Here is the column:
This week, Attorney General Merrick Garland took to the pages of the Washington Post to lash out at critics who are spreading what he considers “conspiracy theories crafted and spread for the purpose of undermining public trust in the judicial process itself.” His column, titled “Unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end,” missed the point.
It is Garland himself who has become the problem. The solution is in Wilmington, Delaware, where 12 average citizens just showed a commitment to the rule of law that seems to be harder and harder for the attorney general to meet.
Since his appointment, Garland has repeated a mantra that he is apolitical and would never yield to the pressures of politics or the White House. When he was nominated, I believed that claim and enthusiastically supported Garland’s confirmation. He was, I thought, the perfect man for the job after his distinguished judicial service as a moderate judge.
I was wrong. Garland’s tenure as attorney general has shown a pronounced reluctance to take steps that would threaten President Biden. He slow-walked the appointment of a special counsel investigating any Biden, and then excluded from the counsel’s scope any investigation of the massive influence peddling operation by Hunter Biden, his uncle and others.
However, it is what has occurred in the last six months that has left some of us shaken, given our early faith in Garland.
I have long been a critic of Garland’s failure to order a special counsel to look into the extensive evidence of corruption surrounding the Bidens. As I stated in my testimony in the Biden impeachment hearing, there is ample evidence that Biden lied repeatedly about his knowledge of this corruption and his interaction with these foreign clients.
However, a more worrisome concern is the lack of consistency in these investigations. First, Special Counsel Robert Hur found that Biden knowingly retained and mishandled classified material. However, he concluded that Biden’s age and diminished faculties would make him too sympathetic to a jury. It was less sympathetic than pathetic, given that this is the same man who is running for re-election to lead the most powerful nation on Earth. More importantly, Garland has not made obvious efforts to reach a consistent approach in the two cases by dropping charges based on the same crimes by Trump in Florida. (Such action would not affect the obstruction counts).
Second, Garland has allowed Special Counsel Jack Smith to maintain positions that seem diametrically at odds with past Justice Department policies. This includes Smith’s statement that he will try Trump up to (and even through) the next election. It also includes a sweeping gag order which would have eviscerated free speech protections by gagging Trump from criticizing the Justice Department. While Garland has said that he wants to give the special counsels their independence, it falls to him to protect the consistency and values of his department.
Garland’s most brazenly political act has been the laughable executive privilege claim used to withhold the audiotape of the Hur-Biden interviews. The Justice Department has not claimed that the transcript is privileged, but only that the audiotape of Biden’s comments is privileged. This is so logically disconnected that even CNN hosts have mocked it.
The Justice Department went further in court by adding conspiracy to absurdity as part of its unhinged theory. It asserted a type of “deepfake privilege” on the basis that the release of the audiotape could allow AI systems to create fake versions of the president’s words. It ignores that there are already ample public sources now to create such fake tapes and that, by withholding the real audiotape, the Justice Department only makes such fake copies more likely to arise and ensnare the unwary.
Most importantly, the arguments of a “he-who-must-not-be-heard” privilege or a deep-fake privilege are ridiculous. Garland knows that, as would any first-year law student. Yet, he is going along with a claim that is clearly designed to protect Biden from embarrassment before the next election. It is entirely political and absurd.
After stumbling through a half-hearted defense of the audiotape decision before he was held in contempt of Congress, Garland was faced with another clear test of principle. Three House committees (Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means) this month referred for prosecution cases of perjury against Hunter Biden and his uncle, James Biden. Despite what appear to be open-and-shut allegations that they lied to Congress, most everyone in Washington believes that Garland and the Justice Department will slow-walk and then scuttle the referrals to protect the Bidens.
This is the same Justice Department that seemed on a hair-trigger to prosecute Trump officials for perjury and contempt after referrals from Democrat-controlled committees.
The questions at issue were not “gotcha” traps, like showing up at Michael Flynn’s office to nail him on his description of a meeting with Russian diplomats. These were some of the most-discussed questions heading into Hunter Biden’s long-delayed appearance before the committees.
Hunter is accused of lying about his position at Rosemont Seneca Bohai, a corporate entity that moved millions of dollars from foreign individuals and entities to Hunter Biden. He also allegedly lied about the identity of the recipient of his controversial message to a Chinese businessman, in which he threatened that his father was sitting “right next to me” and would join him in retaliating against the Chinese if they did not send millions. They promptly wired the money as demanded.
Hunter’s answers appear to be demonstrably untrue. Yet, there is little faith that the Justice Department will allow the matter to be presented to a grand jury. If Garland’s pledge to remain apolitical were widely accepted, there would be little question about the prosecution of such compelling claims.
Garland now appears entirely adrift in his own department. While mouthing platitudes about being beyond politics, he continues to run interference for the Biden White House. He appears to be looking to close aides for such direction.
He should instead look to those 12 people in Wilmington, Delaware.
Despite facing overwhelming evidence of Hunter Biden’s guilt, his legal team pursued a jury-nullification strategy. Wilmington is Bidentown, the hometown for the president and his family. An array of Bidens, including the first lady, lined up behind Hunter during the trial, in case anyone forgot that fact.
Yet the jury convicted Hunter on all counts without any hesitation. Despite sympathy for a recovering drug addict in a town that has overwhelmingly supported the Bidens for decades, “nobody mentioned anything about political motivations” in the jury room, as one juror noted. “I was never thinking of President Joe Biden,” said another.
Garland needs to show a modicum of that courage and principle as attorney general. He could start by dropping the farcical privilege claims over the audiotape and sending the referrals to the U.S. Attorneys Office for the same priority treatment afforded to Trump officials like Flynn.
As it stands, few believe that will happen, despite Garland’s repeated line about transcending politics. It is not the mantra that is in doubt, but the man.
Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University School of Law. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon and Schuster, 2024).
Withholding the audio is obviously politically motivated. Which is unsurprising, since Garland has been one of the most partisan AGs in memory.
While Garland was raiding Trump’s home over a classified document dispute, he was letting the statute of limitations on the foreign influence-peddling by Biden’s family run out.
While left-wing pro-Hamas protesters were rioting and targeting Jews, Garland was still fearmongering over the coming MAGA extremist revolution, inflating the threat with bogus statistics.
While Garland did nothing to stop the illegal picketing at the homes of Supreme Court justices and attempting to intimidate them and influence cases — not even after an assassin targeted Justice Brett Kavanaugh — he did deploy armed teams to raid the homes of pro-life families and prosecute elderly anti-abortion protesters for praying in front of “clinics.”
Even as Democrats are yammering about saving democracy, the DOJ is suing red states like Texas to overturn duly passed laws limiting abortion.
Even as the DOJ was restarting censorship efforts under the guise of stopping foreign interference, Garland was targeting X owner Elon Musk with new investigations. It’s quite the happenstance, right?
Not only did Garland form a “task force” to investigate local parents who were protesting authoritarian COVID restrictions and racist curriculums, but he refused to dissolve the effort even after the National School Boards Association apologized for the letter that sparked it.
Of course, it was the Biden administration that prompted the organization to use the term “domestic terrorism” to give the DOJ justification to get involved in the first place. Even The New York Times acknowledged that “Garland did not detail any specific threats of violence or offer reasons for the increase in harassment and threats.” The only reason to get involved was to chill speech and intimidate parents.
Even the case against Hunter Biden, used most often to brandish Garland’s alleged Solomonic credentials, is a farce.
Let’s not forget if the DOJ had its way, there would be no prosecution. To begin with, Garland ignored the law and appointed a counsel from within the government. David Weiss, whose office was filled with Biden allies, was prepared to give Hunter an astonishing immunity deal, not only on felony gun and tax charges but for a slew of unrelated serious potential offenses, including failure to register as a foreign agent, bribery and corruption.
It was only because of the whistleblower testimony of Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler that Weiss was forced to ask Hunter Biden to plead guilty to two piddling misdemeanor counts. And the immunity deal was only quashed because Judge Maryellen Noreika, who pointed out there was not a single precedent in which immunity was offered for “crimes in a different case,” rejected it.
In his remarks to Congress on June 4, Garland promised that he “will not back down from defending our democracy,” despite the “repeated attacks” and “conspiracy theor[ies]” regarding the DOJ. Conspiracy theories exist, no doubt, but most criticisms of Garland’s work are legitimate. Treating criticism of his corrupt tenure as an attack on the “judicial process itself” has it backward. Demanding no one question the actions of state institutions is authoritarian. If the system were working properly, Garland would be impeached.
But in their efforts to save “democracy” — a concept that’s been stripped of any meaning — Democrats have justified deploying the state to punish and destroy political enemies. For many progressives, the legal system isn’t merely a tool for criminal justice but a way to exact political justice. Garland is one of the leaders in this fight.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2024/06/12/harsanyi-merrick-garland-deserves-impeachment-not-praise/74057381007/
JTJ, absolutely great comment! After reading this perfect outline of Garland and the DOJ’s actions and inactions all I can say is I hope we see many more comments from you going forward.
It’s nice reading something that is well thought out, logical, cogent, on point, informative, interesting and shocking all at the same time. There is no way that any of the partisan hacks that comment here 100 times a day will be able to refute what you outlined. They will come at you with lies, fake answers to your points and maybe even personal attacks, but they won’t be able to crack the armor of your thesis.
HullBobby,
I agree with your assessment of JTJ comment.
Again trying to glom onto
someone else’s ‘well said’ comment.
This time it’s a two-for-one.
Well said Upstate!
JTJ-excellent comment and points. Very much supports and dovetails with my earlier comment but I think yours is better.
As for GEORGE-Shakespeare said it best . As “like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Who would believe his motivations are from being denied a seat on the high court?
That would dilute the belief his Marxism doesn’t play a significant role.
That would be false.
Have we really forgotten what that is?
Responding to Alank:
Your comment about Garland’s relatives perishing in the Holocaust. Garland is probably an otherwise good man but everyone may want to consider this.
If 1930’s Germany had a loyalty-culture that supported a constitution that protected individual liberties and restrained government authority (like the American system).
If such a loyalty-culture existed in Germany in the 1930’s, Hitler and the Nazis never would have gained power and there would be no Holocaust.
1930’s Germany had a Trump style loyalty-culture. The German Oath of Office swore loyalty to a single person (Hitler). Therefore treason was defined as not being loyal to Hitler. Trump supports this loyalty-culture (to a single person) as did George W. Bush with Monica Goodling trying to purge the Justice Department of anyone not loyal to Bush.
Conservatives may want to pay attention. In a 1930’s Germany type loyalty-culture, there will be no individual rights to own guns or property. Loyalty is to a single person not your Bill of Rights – which includes the 2nd Amendment.
And we are not seeing a loyalty to Biden thing going on, are we??
Douche
I’m sorry, how much of that $6T was spent with a single dissenting democrat vote in the house or the Senate, aside from Joe Manchin???
Loyalty much?
You are wrong. Germany was a modern Western society until 1933. Germans, however, have mentality of never questioning the authority. Once Wall Street (and Catholic Church) helped to squeeze Hitler through to seize power, it went down hill really quick from there. By the end of summer 1933, all adversaries of all colors were taken care of, and in six and a half years Einsatzgruppen were is in full swing committing war crimes. You need really good ,ass brainwashing to achieve that.
Actually that personal loyalty clause to HITLER was a break from what the Weimar Republic was trying to do. Hitler actually pushed the personal loyalty clause on each individual German Soldier, effectively making the soldier loyal to Hitler alone and not to the state and their commanders. Hitler never trusted the High Command of the Wehrmacht, many of whom never trusted Hitler. Their failure was going along with Hitler despite all of their misgivings. Runstedt was a good example of many generals who despised Hitler but served him none the less. Military units were pulled out and in mass were required to personally swear loyalty to Hitler.
I have not heard of Trump actually having mass units of soldiers or White House staff stand and repeat a personal loyalty oath to him. I think they are all swear to protect and defend the constution. Soldiers do the same and also to follow the lawful orders of those who are legally appointed as their superiors.
Ukraine can’t join NATO, but there’s nothing that says
Ukraine can’t join the United States.
Ukraine would become American territory.
Russia wouldn’t dare to attack American territory.
It would rain hellfire from above on Moscow if it did.
Do you enjoy masturbating in public?
The law be damned. Garland has been an extraordinary Gatekeeper for the Bidens and is America’s role model for all aspiring Mob Lawyers. His motto should be “Lie like a pumpkin pie”. Lunch Box Joe will award him the Congressional Medal of Freedom for “saving democracy” when he departs the DOJ. Sound about right Jonathan ???
Progressive corruption (PC) in the District of Corruption (DC) is a progressive process (PP). #BureaucratLiesMatter
Professor Turley’s admission on Garland, ” He was, I thought, the perfect man for the job after his distinguished judicial service as a moderate judge.” ends with the damning headline, “The Corruption of Merrick Garland,” is about as strong as one can get.
Turley calls Garland corrupt, which he is, and that is a mirror of the corruption of the entire Biden Administration.
Congratulations to the professor for being a straight shooter. He recognizes the Administration’s corruption. Now, all that is necessary is acknowledging the corruption of the left and, thus, the Democrati Party.
It’s also refreshing to read someone saying ‘I was wrong’.
While moving onto a bigger-picture view of things.
Too many people just double down on their willful bias.
“ Turley calls Garland corrupt, which he is, and that is a mirror of the corruption of the entire Biden Administration.”
Turley’s view of corruption is tailored only to apply to democrats. Not Republicans who are also mired in corruption. Of course that would be blasphemy in the eyes of his conservative and MAGA readers. That’s why he keeps his criticisms focused only on democrats.
Trump is rife with corruption, it’s synonymous with his character and business ethics. He’s already been indicted for numerous corrupt endeavors and found guilty of felony crimes. That speaks of corruption in the multitudes compared to Biden.
^^^^Steaming turd
“Turley’s view of corruption is tailored only to apply to democrats. “
You are an idiot. Biden is in the WH, and there are numerous indications of corruption. The Biden DOJ functions like a Gestapo. You are deaf, dumb and blind. You lack facts like Moron George and could be his twin.
“Trump is rife with corruption,“
That makes it easy for you to list several corrupt things Trump did. Unfortunately, like Moron George, you can’t.
S. Meyer, Trump is a convicted felon, convicted fraudster in civil court. And a convicted sexual assaulter.
Pretty much his character to be corrupt. It’s very easy to list all of his corrupt endeavors. The last one involved 34 examples, all felonies.
Most corruption is not easily prosecuted because the Supreme Court has made it very hard to prosecute corruption cases thanks to republicans who love their own corruption schemes.
George, we await the appeals process. We have to remember the Russia hoax something you supported. The Ukraine hoax, supported by you as well. All the sexualizing in the school systems you said didn’t happen. All your comments on Covid.
Almost everything you said was proven wrong, just like you are wrong today. Make your arguments and show proof. We still don’t know what the jury said was the crime that Trump committed. You are a fool, but maybe you can tell us what the crime was according to the jury.
When eventually the conviction is overturned because of it obvious faults you will run away like you do all the time.
“and found guilty of felony crimes. “
Attempt to make yourself look a bit smarter by naming the specific crime and defending it as a crime or corruption. Now is your chance to shine or prove yourself a dummy.
S. Meyer,
The specific crimes, 34 to be exact, were falsifying business records in the first degree. NY law makes that a felony crime.
same old predictable nonsense from George
People keep asking what the crimes were, but they keep ignoring it when it’s presented to them. Like it’s not real. Apparently living in an alternate reality is much easier than living in actual reality.
They arent asking for the “crimes” as in the “counts of the same crime”. FBR1 requires 2 or more crimes.
Are you just pretending to be stupid?
“Are you just pretending to be stupid?”
George doesn’t have to pretend.
Placing legal expenses under the column of legal expenses is not a crime. That is what people generally do. Try and be more specific. You can’t, but you can act like a moron.
What did the jury say the crime was? You don’t know? Typical. You never know. You are factless.
The biased jury following a biased judges biased management of a case run by a prosecutor who promised to find a crime Trump committed found Trump guilty. We still don’t know what Trump was guilty of. The Chinese menu approach to guilt which avoids the jury being unanimous will be overturned for that and other reasons.
GEORGE, SPECIFICALLY WHAT CRIME DID THE JURY FIND TRUMP GUILTY OF AND HOW WAS IT UNANIMOUS?
There was probably a time where it seemed far-fetched to turn Alaska and Hawaii into states, yet they were.
Why not turn Ukraine into a state?
Cuba, too.
I’m down with that. It would take a weekend to end the misery over there.
Great news!
The House passed a measure to automatically registers all draft-age male U.S. residents with the Selective Service System!
Your kids and grandkids are that much closer to getting drafted into another forever war, get sent to the Ukraine to fight and die for Biden’s forever war!
Go out and buy them a toy gun, and tell them to “Take that hill! Yes! The one with the machine gun nest!”
It is weird how you are so against the idea of people being free in other countries. Since when is that such a terrible sentiment?
Where did I say that?
I am pointing out, as I have in the past here on the good professor’s blog, would it be great if the Ukrainian military could push Russian forces back to pre-war boundaries?
Of course.
But then there is the reality of the situation. As I have stated before, the Ukraine does not have the manpower. It is so bad, they lowered the draft age to 25 from 27. It is so bad, Zelesky signed a degree allowing foreigners to serve in the Ukraine military. It is so bad, Poland is considering deporting all military aged Ukrainian men back to the Ukraine to fight in the war. Which they should of been doing in the first place.
Despite our efforts to train the Ukrainians in combined arms combat, they opted for WWII like tactics. So did the Russians. It has become a war of attrition. And Russia is winning.
Pointing out those facts is not being anti-Zelensky or pro-Putin. It is just the reality we are in.
All the death and destruction could of been avoided if Biden the butcher, and the West not interfered with the tentative peace deal in the spring of 2020 at Istanbul. The war could of ended then and there. And the Ukrainian people would be free.
What is weird is how you make comments that would escalate the situation, possibly WWIII or a nuclear exchange rather than favor peace. End the fighting. End the dying. End playing WWIII chicken.
What is weird is you and people like you, with no skin in the game, are ready and willing to send other people’s kids to do the fighting and dying while you cheer on half a world away.
Scrubbing Bubbles: we work hard so you don’t have to. Isn’t that what they’re supposed to do? I mean, you want to talk about harsh realities.
So them fighting and dying so we dont have to is what they are supposed to do?
Yep. That is the problem with people like you. No skin in the game. Cheer on other people fighting and dying.
What’s weird is how you enjoy beating off in public
UpstateFarmer-So much for total body autonomy that the pro-abortion crowd likes to push. I wonder what will happen to that movement if women eventually are also included in the draft like in Israel.
GEB,
Good question.
And I wonder if they will suddenly embrace motherhood and get preggers.
Garland on occasion mentions that relatives of his perished in the Holocaust to garner sympathy. Yet his DoJ and FBI turn a blind eye to pro Hamas rioters assaulting Jewish Students, destroying private property, and defacing Lafayette Park in DC while assaulting Park Rangers. Garland is truly a despicable human being and his sense of fair and equal justice is on the par with a politburo commissar in the former Soviet Union. He would prefer prosecuting catholic parishioners and PTA parents to pursuing thugs beating up Jews. Evil!
Why not make Supreme Court jusitices wear robes that have their sponsors sewn onto them, like NASCAR drivers?
The Dem justice would all be sponsored by Soros.
Thank you, Mr. Turley, for an excellent piece that (as you so often do) clearly exposes the lack of honest adherence to our country’s most foundational principles by those who are governing us. Of those foundational principles I believe none is more critical than the system of check and balances that is made possible by the separation of powers spelled out in our constitution. However, it has become increasingly evident this system, where all 3 branches are to have equal power, is now dangerously out of balance with the Executive Branch exerting far more power than the founders intended. In my view the remedy is not to increase to power of the Judicial Branch but rather to reduce the power of the Executive Branch. And could we not do that by shifting more power to the citizens of this country by making the Attorney General an elected position?
James Carper said: “Of those foundational principles I believe none is more critical than the system of check and balances that is made possible by the separation of powers spelled out in our constitution.”
Your premise about the importance of separation of powers has merit. However, the insulation of governing actors and actions from the day-to-day whims of the people (which is that which makes us a republic) is of at least equal importance to the separation principle (some of us might say it is somewhat more important). We have been drifting away from the concept of a representative republic for quite some time, to our detriment. I fear that direct election of the AG would be a large step further away from that ideal.
Likely the vast majority of voters – Republicans, Democrats & Independents – believe the entire system is broken especially the justice system.
This is the real crisis, our “constitutional democratic republic” no longer functions, no longer solves problems and no longer provides equal Justice under the law and constitution. Any regular citizen rarely receives a trial and never receives such light treatment.
Garland is merely the symptom. The real crisis is the “system” has been twisted so it no longer works. American institutions need a complete overhaul – no politician alone will fix this. Garland is simply operating in this terrible system.
Unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end
– Merrick Garland
Unfounded attacks by the Justice Department on Americans must end
– Americans
GFY
– Merrick Garland
FJB
– Americans
JT, your hypocrisy is stunning. STUNNING.
You obfuscate facts so often I have no doubt at this point in time you believe what you say. You have truly become like the one you worship, djt.
Has djt promised you the AG job? Does Fox pay you enough to sell your soul to the devil? Good for you. I hope you’re happy. But don’t pretend you anything close to being fair. Those closest to trump over the past 8 years are the ones yelling the loudest to keep this guy away from the White House.
Clear the air JT, How much does Fox pay you for the drivel you pour out on a daily basis?
The hypocritical mendacity !!!
DOJ Won’t Pursue Criminal Contempt Charges Against Garland
An official from the Department of Justice (DOJ) told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a letter that Attorney General Merrick Garland will not be prosecuted for contempt of Congress because his refusal to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interview with a prosecutor did not amount to a crime.
By: Tom Ozimek ~ June 14TH 2024
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/doj-wont-pursue-criminal-contempt-charges-against-garland
-TRA
Professor Turley should update his column and post to mention and briefly discuss the quick reply DOJ letter to the referral (not slow-walking as predicted and citing and following DOJ precedent as Turley appears to want).
“. . . not slow-walking as predicted . . .”
JT’s slow-walking prediction is about the “cases of perjury” against the Bidens — not about the contempt charge against Garland.
Next time, try comprehension and intellectual honesty.
Well…it’s true. Refusal to turn over the audio tapes is not a crime since they already have the transcript. If they truly believed they had the right demand it they would have gone to court first before issuing a useless contempt of congress referral.
All they have to do is sue. But they know that if they do they will have to justify AND prove that the transcript is altered. They can’t do that without exposing their own dishonesty.
More drivel and makin’ shit up from Svelaz
Investigators selected a sampling of excerpts across Mr. Biden’s notebooks that both appeared to be classified and that they expected a jury could find are national defense information under 18 U.S.C. § 793. Subject to the limitations discussed in Chapter Two, classification authorities identified each excerpt as containing presently classified information. :i~:3 Of the thirty-seven excerpts:
Eight are Top Secret with Sensitive Compartmented Information, seven of
which include information concerning human intelligence sources,
• Six are Top Secret,
Twenty-one are Secret, and
• Two are Confidential
You say Mr. Turley’s hypocrisy is “Stunning” and that he “obfuscates fact”, but you cite no specifics. Sorry, but it’s hard to see how your argument changes any minds.
Just because he appears on Fox News and is paid by Fox News does not discredit his arguments.
One great thing the GOP will be doing with Project 2025 is allowing regular American citizens to purchase a share in the Supreme Court. If you help finance a Justice’s vacation house you’ll get a certificate suitable for framing.
If I help all nine do I get to decide a case?
Or a set a steak knives.
Do you get a piece of the whole court?
Or just a piece of one justice?
For each share you get one decision in your favor
You get a bump stock modification to the first 100 of your collection of 1000 guns.
What’s more. dangerous, bump stocks or urban (not rich) democrat voters. Wanna be safe, get rid of urban democrats.
Can I have a logo patch sewn onto the robe of the Justice I’m financing?
^^^^public matsurbation.
Can we pick which justice to adopt?
This will be so fun. We can match like on Tinder!
Are they accepting bitcoin?
Will they have limited edition NFTs too?
Also, is it possible they will have collector’s plates for those who don’t purchase NFTs?
It appears that more people would rather use their Soros Bucks to finance a DA, they seem to get better value for their money.
We are knew that Biden was a cats paw for Obama and Obama leading the Puzzled Prez off the stage says a lot. The trouble with the cats paw is although crippled, nearly blind, losing weight and bumping into things, He still has fangs (probably teeth implants) which he uses to rip and tear at the fabric of the Untied States.
Time to trade up to a Tiger
GEB,
Watching the Biden campaign try to spin all the freezes, the wondering off, the need to be lead away is mind boggling.
Jonathan: This is your second column in days about the “corruption” of AG Garland. Why the pile up? For a year you have claimed “massive corruption by the Biden family”. The “twin Jims” tried to prove it but could not find a smoking gun. So now it’s all about the refusal of Garland to turn over the audio-tape of the Biden/Hur interview. And now the House barely came up with the votes to impeach Garland.
Garland’s refusal to turn over the tape is consistent with DOJ. The DOJ already turned over the transcript of the interview. That is the official record. There is no legitimate legislative purpose for demanding the audio-tape. As former GOP Rep. Ken Buck pointed out–the demand for the tape is “just looking for something for political purposes”. Comer admitted this in a fundraising email that he wants the tape to target “swing voters across the country”.
You and the “twin Jims” are engaged in a political stunt to aid the DJT campaign. That you would sign up for that indicates how a law professor could turn into a “laughable” political hack!
If executive privilege did not protect Nixon’s tapes, how could it protect Biden’s tape? Someone at the DOJ must be able to recall Watergate.
Dennis, you come here every day, often more than once,
to post your disrespectful OT drivel. Why the pile up?
Oh yeah, because you’re getting paid to ‘poke holes’ that go nowhere.
Dear Mr. Turley, thanks again to GEB for a well thought out response to your column. An opinion piece in today’s Wisconsin State Journal bemoans on how Hunter Biden was singled out for a harsh verdict. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything it helped to right the scales. A/G Garland has taken the Justice Dept down a dangerous path. All for his boss’ political gain. Thankfully not everyone has bent their knee to the Left.
Anonymous said: “Wisconsin State Journal bemoans on how Hunter Biden was singled out for a harsh verdict.”
You did not provide a link, but if that was their premise, it instantly fails on its own merit. Verdicts are neither harsh, nor lenient, merely “guilty” or “not guilty”. That Hunter Biden was guilty of the charges was obvious to nearly everyone who knew of the facts of the case. Harshness and leniency refer to punishment: a sentence that has yet to be rendered.
Is there any doubt who’s running the nation after seeing the guy grab Biden’s sleeve and walking him off stage, like a lost child?
Margot,
That, his freezing on stage, at the Juneteenth event, wondering off like a lost child. There are even reports at the G7 that he could not keep focus to the point people were embarrassed for him.
How are they going to get him not only to the debates, the convention and the election?