Wait, are we really pretending the DOJ didn’t just do what it just did?
Someone on social media just asked – apparently in all seriousness – if Merrick Garland and the DOJ are finally going to wake up and do anything, now that a judge is slapping down Steve Bannon. Huh? Garland and his DOJ are the ones putting Bannon on trial. They’re the ones who got the judge to slap Bannon down.
The media and pundit class has so throughly brainwashed so many audience members into this unshakable religious belief that Garland and his DOJ are doing “nothing,” they literally can’t process any proof to the contrary. Who do they think puts people on federal criminal trial? Do they think Bannon just wandered into court by accident?
Garland and his DOJ indicted Bannon. Garland and his DOJ are prosecuting Bannon. Garland and his DOJ convinced the judge to reject Bannon’s defense. Have people really convinced themselves that someone other than the DOJ is prosecuting a federal criminal trial, just so they can keep pretending the DOJ is doing nothing?
Part of the problem is that the media and pundit class knows that it can always chase ratings by just making up any doomsday fiction it wants about the DOJ, and that the DOJ is not going to put its ongoing federal criminal cases at risk just to call out the media’s fictional storylines about the DOJ.
And so every day, audiences hear that the DOJ is doing “nothing” – and even on days like this, where it’s abundantly clear that the DOJ has been doing a whole lot of something behind the scenes all along – audiences still can’t shake off the fictional mantra that the DOJ is doing “nothing.” At this point they’re even convincing themselves that the things that the DOJ is doing are actually being done by someone else, and then they’re bashing the DOJ for not being as aggressive as… the DOJ. It’s absurd beyond the pale.
