“No one is above the law.”
It’s a very simple statement. There are no exceptions to it. There are no conditions attached to it. It’s either true or it isn’t.
If you make the pronouncement that “no one is above the law”, you have an obligation to support it, and, if you have that responsibility, you are obligated to carry it out. If you cannot, then you are both a liar and a coward. It is that simple.
Ever since he took office as America’s highest prosecutor, Attorney General Merrick Garland has continually proclaimed that no one is above the law. That he would carry out his duties, no matter where that leads.
Yes, that has led him to arrest and charge hundreds of people who took part in the January 6th insurrection. That has led him to arrest and charge the confidant to the Narcissist, Stephen Bannon, with contempt of Congress.
But there is one person that Garland has systematically refused to prosecute, and that is the narcissist that formerly served as the President of the United States, Donald John Trump.
Yes, Garland authorized the search of the narcissist’s Mar a Lago home for classified documents that he was not supposed to take from the White House. And supposedly that was something Garland was reluctant to do except that the weight of the evidence presented demanded he approve the search warrant. But executing a search warrant is not the same as executing an arrest warrant. It’s just another slow step towards possible criminal charges, emphasis on the “slow” part.
Some progressives have been saying that Garland has just been meticulous. He’s supposedly “building” the case, working up from the lowly red-hat foot soldiers that stormed the Capital Building to “eventually” get to the narcissist. Strangely enough, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection had no problem connecting the dots with their information and their witnesses, and they started much later than the Department of Justice.
Then there is the fact that, from the moment Garland took office, there has been a report sitting on his desk from retired judge Robert Mueller outlining clear charges that could be filed against The Florida Guy from the moment he left the White House in January of 2021. A report that, despite claims of vindication from Garland’s predecessor, would lead to criminal charges if Garland so chose to file them. So the question is… why hasn’t he? All the groundwork was already laid out by Mueller back in 2019. The only reason why Mueller didn’t file charges then was because he was under directives to not indict a sitting president. But that person is no longer president and hasn’t been president since January 21, 2021. Even Mueller himself told Congress that his successor could at any time file those charges against the narcissist. So, again, why hasn’t Garland done that?
And now, just a week before this article’s posting, the Attorney General has announced that he has appointed a special council to handle the investigations involving the narcissist. This coming just after the orange fascist announced his intentions to run for President of the United States in 2024, and supposedly was Garland’s justification to appoint a special council.
Understand that this commentator has been calling for a special council or special prosecutor since last year. I was the one saying we need special prosecutors instead of a needless Congressional commission. And yet, that commission has done far more to investigate The Florida Guy and his accomplices than Garland apparently did. In fact, Garland had to be goaded into just arresting Bannon for contempt. We have prosecutors on three levels of government dragging their sorry butts, and the only charges being filed so far are civil ones.
Let’s get brutally honest here… it is this commentator’s speculation that Attorney General Garland is a coward. This decision to appoint a special council now, rather than earlier, is just another way for Garland to simply run out the clock for himself, which is precisely what the narcissist wants.
Garland could have used the Mueller Report to file charges against The Florida Guy last year. He didn’t. There was plenty of time for him to bring charges before the “big announcement”, which you know the narcissist was going to make regardless of how the midterms ended up. He didn’t do that. He didn’t need to demand the January 6th Commission to share their evidence. His people should have already had evidence, if he was serious about bringing charges against the narcissist instead of just prosecuting the red-hats and letting them get off light.
By dragging out the process, by running out the clock, by being a coward and not doing the job, Garland is showing that someone *is* apparently above the law. That the very statement he made when he took office and continues to make to this day is nothing but a bold-faced lie. And that does far more damage to the office he holds than anything that the narcissist and his cronies ever did.
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