Biden Throws Merrick Garland Under the Bus

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Last weekend, President Joe Biden explained to the nation that the Justice Department targeted his son, Hunter, for selective prosecution.  In his statement accompanying the President’s pardon of his son, Biden alleged that:

“Hunter was singled out only because he is my son—and that is wrong . . . . Here’s the truth. I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe that raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice . . . .”

The head of the U.S. Department of Justice is Attorney General Merrick Garland, whom President Biden appointed. It would be preposterous to suggest that Garland did not authorize the prosecution of Hunter Biden. He most certainly authorized the unprecedented prosecutions of former president Donald Trump and the unannounced search of Trump’s home in Florida by dozens of armed FBI agents.

Garland also authorized the prosecution of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the 2021 raid by FBI agents of his home and office. Giuliani was an advisor during Trump’s first presidency and his campaign for reelection. So was California attorney John Eastman, who was also searched and prosecuted by government attorneys under Garland’s authority.

As noted in a May 12, 2022  story in the Washington Examiner:

Garland directed the FBI and the Department of Justice to form a joint task force in October 2021 to investigate threats against school board members after the National School Boards Association asked the Biden administration in a September 2021 letter to investigate parents protesting at school board meetings as domestic terrorists under the Patriot Act.

So the liberal/democrat National School Boards Association asks President Biden to investigate parents angry about vaccine mandates and DEI curriculum, and a week later Attorney General Garland announces that a task force would be investigating the parents as possible terrorists.

There is much more evidence of selective prosecutions and corruption in the Justice Department under Attorney General Garland. Examples include the decision to refrain from prosecuting the violent George Floyd rioters who in 2020, killed two dozen people, burned and looted dozens of urban neighborhoods and violently attacked the police; the decision to throw the book at the hundreds of non-violent republicans who police escorted into halls of Congress or who were identified on security cameras on the steps or lawn at the Capitol. Those who broke windows or doors or fought with the Capitol police deserved prosecution, but for the majority of people investigated and prosecuted, Garland was making a political statement.

Now that the current President and the President-elect are in agreement that the Department of Justice is corrupt and politically motivated, maybe it’s is time to clean house. Merrick Garland should be the first person investigated.

To quote our current president, “nobody is above the law.”