Merrick Garland is Why Trump Won
The Attorney General of the US is supposed to enforce the law “without fear or favor”
In 2020, few people appreciated how utterly destructive and far-reaching Attorney General Merrick Garland’s reticence to prosecute Trump after his failed coup d’etat would or could manifest.
Along with many others, I pointed to Garland’s timidity, his stated fear of being labeled as a partisan hack for moving against political opponents, especially one Donald Trump.
Garland’s rare public appearances during that two-year period sought to assure us that all was well despite all appearances to the contrary. Indeed, he mumbled that he really was “investigating” Trump and his whole coterie of grifters, self-dealers and outright traitors and insurrectionists; and that he was “following the evidence” wherever it might lead; and that he was doing so “without fear or favor.”
Without Fear or Favor
However, the reality was and remains that after sitting on his hands and/or twiddling his thumbs, it took a House of Representatives Select Committee’s very public investigation to…
