If Jack Smith writes a report and Garland releases it, that's actually a pretty baller move: releasing a report on an incoming president. If he doesn't release it, I'll join y'all in calling him an ineffective jerk.
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Sister, I love you but seriously
Merick Garland is fifth column!
He is single-handedly responsible for Trump coming back. It’s high time you call him whatever curse word you find
Releasing a report after the beginning of the end of the Republic is like playing violin on the deck of sinking Titanic
Garland can hop a plane- so no. He’s not facing what poor and minority communities are facing at any stretch of the imagination. He has resources & influence.
Garland never fails to disappoint. Where is the unredacted Mueller report? Where is the list of people being paid by Russia? Where are the Epstein files? Where is the fake assination attempt investigation? There are a hundreds more buried investigations due to him.
Is anyone questioning where is Trump today? After the two ambulances and helicopter seen leaving MaraLardo, he hasn’t been seen or no communication on X. Let’s demand proof of life! #whereisTrump
In another thread I wondered if there had been a recent proof of life sighting of the President elect, esp. w/ all the nomination announcements accompanied by file photos. Apparently not. Got my fingers crossed. 🤞
#whereistrump #ghostmusk !!! I’ve notice, there are rumors his health is not well. So far nothing has leaked except, may of had a body double during the launch
Nothing Garland has done in 4 years would indicate that he is going to release the report. It seems like he never really understood the danger that Trump and MAGA really is/was
I feel like I gotta tell you about something most people don’t know. The FBI refused to execute Garland’s search warrants of coup leaders including members of Congress in 2021, so Garland got the post office cops to do it. He also forced the raid on Mar a Lago when the FBI didn’t want to. Kinda cool
You mentioned this on Nicole Sandler’s podcast. But, I like the way you phrase it here - “in charge of the delay” - as I suspect that is closest to the truth.
I think Jack will/has written his report. Will it be released?
Maybe in 50 years?
Gaetz crap happened at least 23 years ago? A witness is 30 now, and she witnessed the acts with a 17 years old while she was 18? They were in high school together?
He is and always has been an "ineffective jerk." All you have to do is look at his history and the lack of action where it was required. The fact that trump still walks free should be all the evidence you need.
Between Smith, Garland and it wouldn’t get released. They are to damn nice. They’re observing Marquis of Queensberry rules and we’re in a fucking street fight.
Remember the Dead Parrot sketch? Where the pet shop owner tells John Cleese’s character that he should go to the shop in Bolton? And when he gets to Bolton, he never gets the parrot replaced and the sketch falls apart because they lost the plot?
There’s an analogy in there somewhere.
He didn’t bring us the justice we so badly needed after our country was attacked by an outgoing president and you think there’s some way to frame that as “effective” as long as he files the paperwork as they shutter our democracy?
Well, devil's advocate, releasing the report on the incoming president could (I have to assume its really bad) severely undermine the administration and its ability to work on the international stage. And that could have a net negative effect for all of us. Albeit, supremely satisfying for many. 1/
2/ However, if his choices for sec def, NATO and certain other ambassadors are confirmed, would the Smith Report do any more harm than these secs and ambassadors? /end
That's a very major thing, AG. And good for you, keeping your mind open to it.
Fair call, too. Gotta wait for it to happen (or not) before making the call.
I'm prepared to call him an ineffective jerk right now. He's been the least effective AG I've seen in my lifetime. 2021-2024 was not the time for a milquetoast legal representative for the citizens of the US. We had a lot to claw back, legally, after Drumpf, and Merrick was out to lunch.
He’s in a dangerous situation. Everyone knows naranja must have some pretty terrifying scare tactics, to have turned so many intelligent politicians into ball kissers. I wonder if JS will leave the USA for his & his family’s safety. If so, will he call a press conference and read his own report?
I’ve held on to your confidence in AG Garland for a long time. I’m done now. If he does anything now it won’t matter. It’s too late to change a damned thing.🤬
Agreed—dropping a Jack Smith report on an incoming president would be the plot twist of the century. Garland could go from 'meh' to 'mic drop' real quick. But if he fumbles, well, there’s plenty of room on the 'ineffective jerk' bandwagon. Your move, Merrick.
Regardless of who it was, the bought and paid for Supreme Court would have stopped it. But yes, Garland could have been more effective. It wouldn’t have made a difference tho.
So you're saying Garland not charging ONE co-coup plotter wouldn't have made a difference? At bare minimum it would have brought to light how extensive the plot was and how many people were involved, including the wife of a SCOTUS.
In my rosy world, AG Garland would be a Supreme Court Justice as nominated. He is a judge not a prosecutor. I hope for a Balls On Fire report released from Garland’s desk or otherwise. Clips from Jan 6 are still a complete outrage, officers💕injured and dead serving our nation at its damaged Capitol!
Let me guess: Garland agrees to release the report; trump sues to block it; pre-trial motions eat up time; scotus rules for trump at 11:59 a.m. on January 20.
Too late. Nothing AG Garland does now will change what an epic , possibly tragic choice he was. Besides McConnell and McCarthy no figure is more responsible for America electing its first convicted felon and rapist.
We know who he is. A convicted felon. An adjudicated rapist. A coup plotter. Failed insurrectionist and more. My disappointment is in the Americans who voted for him. They weren’t conned or duped. They chose evil and corruption
He sold his own legacy and reputation for Trump. To me he's a quisling/5th columnist/sleeper. He has slow walked this to keep a traitor/fraud/Rapist Felon out of jail and into a 2nd term. I trusted him and he has betrayed us all! #GarlandBetrayedAmerica
I honestly think Garland has been the worst non-Trump Attorney General ever. He is one of the primary reasons we’re looking at four more years of shitstorm by doing literally nothing for two years and allowing Trump to skate on everything.
I’m starting to think that this was his plan all along. I’m surprised he isn’t going to remain AG under Trump. He’s already protected him for 4 years, why not 4 more?
Garland on the end makes a baller move but he moved so slowly that Justice wasn't possible. Whether he is a jerk or not...Biden chose him...Obama wanted him for Supreme Court. That choice is anemic.
Gutless Garland won't do anything.
Criminal trump has just announced HE will fire Jack Smith, and begin an investigation into the 2020 election, with Bondi head of DOJ, there will be no separation of powers and years of trump criminal investigations will be void.
If he doesn't release it, he is much more than an ineffective jerk. Bill Barr and any other GOP AG would release it in a heartbeat if the tables were turned. Garland will be doing a huge disservice to the future of the country. The Democrats need to wake up ASAP and fight fire with fire.
Right there with you. I have defended and believed in Garland since he took office. I hope he’s doing all he possibly can. He needs to throw out norms now because they are such a threat to the whole world and will ignore law altogether (except as a weapon of retribution and intimidation)!
A report will be released. I expect a Barr 2.0 memo after Garland leaves where the new AG writes a summary exonerating the President and excoriating the prosecution.
I would love for this to happen, but I just have this gut feeling that Garland will not release it. He is one of those that seem happy to stay in the norms because he isn't directly impacted by the bad stuff happening.
He has probably fooled himself into thinking Trump won't bother him.
I have no doubt that Jack Smith will do his job, but Garland is quite another matter. At first I wanted to believe he was merely being thorough, deliberate. Now I believe he has an agenda that is not aligned with ours, US. Had he made SCOTUS, he'd have been a surprise con vote. Just my opinion. 🤷♀️
With nothing to show for it. They could have picked up the thousand punks, cosplayers, and thugs any time. Garland made a choice, Whether it was intentional or not, his choice cost the citizens of this country a measure of accountability for the monster who is about to do it again. Fuck him.
What’s to have prevented Smith from already preparing such a report? Smith’s only job has been to be the Special Counsel. He’s known which way the proverbial wind had been blowing, for months.
BTW, Biden’s “legacy” will be forever tarnished by making Garland AG. Offsets much of the good.
Dude Garlands career is essentially waiting too long and staying to subtle whatever pertains to him flips. He could have done a media tour when he was nominated for the supreme court, but he stalled then too
How is it you to think RumpLeon & pootin’s puppets are ever letting go of power again? Biden, Garland & Wray are handing over the country early & aren’t even fighting back. No chance for any Hail Marys to save the country from corrupt dictatorship even. Sickening.
Won't Trump's people just shred the evidence? They'll be able to literally do what they want, his people don't follow rules or laws of any kind. Better to release everything to the public, not that MAGA will care or hear about it from Fox
Jack Smith should follow the GOP-ish playbook 1) no comprehensive report 2) sign a lucrative book deal. 3) reveal anything he wants to make public in that book. Get political asylum somewhere (before he writes the book) and live happily ever after.
I think Jack Smith did everything he could, it was Garland that screwed this investigation from the start! When Biden won 4 years ago, I thought that was the end of Trump… look at us now? ITS GOING TO GET WORSE FOLKS!
Garland won’t release the report. He will evoke the need to rally behind our elected President and the importance of not undermining the incoming administration and national security at a vulnerable transition time. I can hear him saying it already.
Serious question, what does releasing the report do? It’s been shown time and time again there are NO consequences for the president-elect. He can do whatever he wants and be untouchable legally and at the polls.
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Merick Garland is fifth column!
He is single-handedly responsible for Trump coming back. It’s high time you call him whatever curse word you find
Releasing a report after the beginning of the end of the Republic is like playing violin on the deck of sinking Titanic
What a waste of carbon Merrick Garland turned out to be as AG.
Dems moved to the fkn right , just like tory light starmer in UK
Labour movement destroyed with support of workers ?
Chickens for nuggets comes to mind
He’s a complicit fool.
I'm still with him. There's more than what we are seeing.
How?
Initially, I think Dep AG Jeffrey Rosen, (A) US Atty Michael Sherwin, D.C.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/06/26/nonzero-on-evidence-based-investigations-and-rudy-giulianis-devices/
@emptywheel.bsky.social has been covering this since the beginning. This piece is over a year old.
Decision to seek federal search warrant in Rudy Giuliani probe could be early test for Biden’s DOJ
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/politics/search-warrant-rudy-giuliani/index.html
He's also one of the guys from whom stories about the investigation has come from, which is why it's unreliable.
And it took 18 months to do the second thing...
I'm missing where this shows toughness.
I’m happy to learn I wasn’t wrong on something this important.
Democracy- something about independent judiciary 🤪
I absolutely want to be wrong.
I want to be wrongest I have ever been.
But I do not.
Garland IS—without question-Biden’s biggest mistake
That’s part of the reason we’re in this mess.
Maybe in 50 years?
Gaetz crap happened at least 23 years ago? A witness is 30 now, and she witnessed the acts with a 17 years old while she was 18? They were in high school together?
Trump's sentence has been suspended. Etc.
His cult doesn’t care.
GOP doesn’t care.
SCOTUS doesn’t care
Will releasing it result it any meaningful change?
😔
He’s an ineffective jerk regardless.
There’s an analogy in there somewhere.
Fair call, too. Gotta wait for it to happen (or not) before making the call.
and he looks it too.
I don’t.
Sadly
Better for Smith to release it broadly at the same time.
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/jack-smith-trump-federal-election-interference-case-dismiss-rcna181669
Donald is the only president still on bail
Can’t believe I am saying something so crazy ridiculous as the above in our country. 🤯
You Literally Can’t Make this Sh*t Up
Has he even been in the United States for the past 4 years?
I'm being serious
Aren’t you supposed to defend the USA against enemies foreign & domestic?
So the US Congress & agencies are going to stand down & let a group of insurgents take over our country. INSANE.
Garland on the end makes a baller move but he moved so slowly that Justice wasn't possible. Whether he is a jerk or not...Biden chose him...Obama wanted him for Supreme Court. That choice is anemic.
Criminal trump has just announced HE will fire Jack Smith, and begin an investigation into the 2020 election, with Bondi head of DOJ, there will be no separation of powers and years of trump criminal investigations will be void.
He has probably fooled himself into thinking Trump won't bother him.
Putin=Hitler
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What should've been done was people vote! The people failed.
Hunker down folks, it's about to get bumpy.
Hero, or Zero?
The two tiered justice system. “Law for thee, but not for me”
There is nothing he can do now that would make him a "Hero", maybe negate the zero up to 1 but never a hero...
And I liked him coming into the AG role initially.
Well. Smiths hands were tied.
BTW, Biden’s “legacy” will be forever tarnished by making Garland AG. Offsets much of the good.
What. A. Let. Down.