This is making Merrick Garland’s life so much easier
These January 6th public hearings don’t put “pressure” on Merrick Garland. These hearings make his life easier. Based on the public evidence alone, Garland knows he’ll have to criminally indict Donald Trump. But these hearings help ensure he’ll have broader public support at his back when he does it – and even more evidence to work with than what he and his DOJ have managed to uncover in their own behind the scenes probe.
We’re still stuck dealing with this fictional ratings-driven narrative that Merrick Garland is a wuss who’s hiding under his desk, afraid to indict Trump, hoping the whole thing just blows over, and that these public hearings are somehow “pressuring” him to “grow a spine.”
But this narrative is kindergarten level nonsense. With ten seconds of critical thinking, you realize nothing comes within a million miles of working that way in the real world. If the “Garland hiding under his desk” narrative rings true for you on any level, it’s only because the media and pundit class has subjected you to this nonsense every single day, in an effort to scare and enrage you into staying tuned in.
We have got to bring the public discourse back to a real world place, where Merrick Garland has a history of being a fearless and accomplished prosecutor, the DOJ doesn’t put anything out there publicly about its ongoing investigations except when it has to, and there is no basis for presuming that the DOJ isn’t already targeting Donald Trump.
How can the media watch the DOJ carry out seizure warrants against Trump’s top henchmen Eastman and Clark, and then claim with a straight face that there’s no indication the DOJ is investigating Trump? What do they think the Eastman and Clark warrants are about, parking tickets? Come on. Trump is, obviously, under DOJ criminal investigation, based just on what little slivers of the DOJ’s work have necessarily had to take place in public view.
