Merrick Garland and his DOJ are a lot deeper into investigating Donald Trump than you’d think
It’s still difficult to comprehend how the media and pundit class can watch the DOJ carry out grand jury seizure warrants against Donald Trump’s top henchmen like John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark, and still claim with a straight face that there’s no indication the DOJ is investigating Donald Trump.
Not only is the DOJ clearly investigating Trump, it’s further along than other probes that the media is bizarrely holding up as examples of what the DOJ “should” be doing. In terms of getting to Trump, the DOJ is demonstrably ahead of the Fulton County DA probe. The DOJ is already carrying out grand jury search and seizure warrants against Trump’s top henchmen and such. The Fulton County DA is still subpoenaing material witnesses for testimony, and best anyone can tell, isn’t yet seizing evidence from criminal targets.
This isn’t a knock on the Fulton County DA at all. She’s doing great work. But as a statement of fact, the DOJ is much further along in the process than she is. The equivalent would be if the Fulton County DA were, for instance, already carrying out search and seizure warrants at Mark Meadows’ house.
But the media has decided it can get the highest ratings by hyping Fulton County and bashing the DOJ, so that’s what the media is doing – and the facts just don’t seem to matter.
One key difference is that the Fulton County DA has done multiple media interviews about her Trump probe, sent her grand jury subpoenas in public fashion, and so on. She’s chosen to carry out her probe semi-publicly, thus giving the media something to work with.
But the DOJ has never historically operated that way, and is intent on keeping all of its moves secret, apart from what can’t help but be done in public. The media hates this, because it means that in order to cover the story honestly, the media would have to just flat out admit to audiences that it has no idea what’s going on. So instead the media just pretends the DOJ is doing nothing even though it knows with 100% certainty that that’s not the case.
Merrick Garland and his DOJ clearly do not care what you, the public, think of them right now. Garland could be out there personally spoon feeding talking points to the media every week, or leaking things that make him look good, or calling in editorial favors in order to get the media to write puff pieces about him. You know, the kinds of things that Bill Barr spent his tenure inappropriately doing. If Garland were willing to play ball with the media, then the media wouldn’t be able to get away with its constant lies about the DOJ doing “nothing.”
But Garland clearly doesn’t think any of that’s important. He knows that when the DOJ makes whatever moves it’s going to make, that action will speak for itself. In the meantime, he doesn’t care if you’re wasting your life feeding your rage addiction by lapping up the media’s lies about him.
In contrast, the Fulton County DA came into this with zero national profile, so it’s probably smarter of her to publicly establish the importance of her probe before she indicts a former President. In contrast, the DOJ’s central role in prosecuting federal crimes is well understood, so it doesn’t have to worry about establishing jurisdiction in the court of public opinion before it carries out matters in the court of law.
