AG Garland Hits Trump with Criminal Investigation
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AG Garland Hits Trump with Criminal Investigation
The amazing House January 6 Select Committee has wondered pointedly and directly through the cameras why Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland has not been criminally investigating the former president. But the January 6 Committee and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are like couples I know. One person is gregarious. And the other one tends to be quiet. The AG is the quiet one in this duo. And guess what AG Garland just did?
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Two top-level people who were former Vice President Mike Pence’s (R) top aides just finished testifying before Merrick’s criminal Grand Jury. And they couldn’t wait to talk to The Washington Post.
Word has it that the AG’s investigators have been combing through all of the aides’ phones and searching for any discussions with the ex-president. We know that ex-POTUS was talking to people as he sat watching his enraged mob attack the Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police. But as far as records go, there is nothing during those 187 minutes between his rally and when he finally released a “Go Home” video.
It turns out that Garland has been particularly interested in the fake electors. People who received fake certificates and turned them in so that they would confuse Pence as he tallied the states’ electoral votes. That way he would be delayed him from certifying that President Joe Biden won the Electoral College vote.
Oh, that’s right. Trump never did win a popular vote.
It seems that Garland has been conducting his criminal investigations since well before the January 6 Committee even started its summer hearings. He was also especially interested in how Trump bullied Pence to hand him the election. Other Trump surrogates piled on, too, such as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and attorney John Eastman.
Last April the Department of Justice investigators acquired the phone records of “ key officials and aides in the Trump administration.” The Select Committee has not been able to get Meadows to appear for them, whereas the AG can force him before the Grand Jury with a subpoena.
Oooooh, that is why Garland refused to honor the Select Committee’s request to subpoena Meadows.
After January 6, Trump said he did not want to prosecute the members of the mob. Instead, he has been working on establishing a firm relationship with them
Appearing before this Super Grand Jury which hears only one hearing is unlike typical Grand Juries who hear multiple cases, The Washington Post reported:
‘Federal criminal investigations are by design opaque, and probes involving political figures are among the most closely held secrets at the Justice Department. Many end without criminal charges. The lack of observable investigative activity involving Trump and his White House for more than a year after the Jan. 6 attack has fueled criticism, particularly from the left, that the Justice Department is not pursuing the case aggressively enough.’
As AG Garland says, he will go “Without fear or favor.”
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