"Merrick Garland is the greatest failure of an Attorney General in the modern era."

[Passages]

My comment on MSNBC 3 weeks ago and now backed up by Jack Smith's report. Smith had tons of evidence to convict Trump but Garland prevented for more than a year an investigation into Trump

Link to tweet

An issue that may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction.

[walkingman]

1. Hindsight is 20/20 but hard to argue with this. In an effort of the executive branch

to appear independent of the judicial, the result has been catastrophic. The intention was good but the result will have long lasting effects.

[Think. Again.]

4. Or...

...the "not political" excuse was a smokescreen to protect trump.

[MLAA]

7. I am now convinced of it. Garland accomplished exactly what he wanted to accomplish.

[gab13by13]

5. Garland's pyramid strategy

was a total failure, more than that, it was a smokescreen to not investigate Trump and his inner circle.

Jack Smith says it in his report. Trump would have been convicted of serious crimes had he been prosecuted in a timely manner.

It was nearly 2 years before Garland went after the top dogs. He shit canned criminal referrals made by the J6 committee to prosecute Ken Chesebro and Mark Meadows.

[Lucky Luciano]

14. Foresight was 20/20. It was obvious what was happening.

[dchill]

19. To say anything else is flackery.

[Mike 03]

2. I got into an argument with him on Twitter.

Mind you, I really love his program but didn't initially agree with him about Garland. From very early on he felt Garland was a total failure. I still held out hope, and when Garland put Jack Smith on the case I was furious that Dean kept going after him--I naively felt like Garland had finally done the right thing.

But I eventually accepted that Dean Obeidallah was right.

[Think. Again.]

3. The truth isn't always "satisfying"

[gab13by13]

6. Now,

who are we supposed to believe, Jack Smith or Marcy Wheeler?

The Jack Smith report vindicates all of the people who have been criticizing Merrick Garland for 4 years.

The Jack Smith report lays the blame where it belongs.

[Think. Again.]

10. Self-deleted (I misread the post above).

[sagetea]

13. who the heck is Marcy Wheeler?

never heard of them before.


sage

[TheRickles]

16. She's the commentator known online as "emptywheel".

She tended to defer to Garland's institutional expertise and conscientiousness in following the protocols.

https://www.emptywheel.net/

[sagetea]

20. oooh!!

Thank you so much! I knew of empty wheel, just didn't know they are one and the same!!

sage

[TheRickles]

21. The nickname is derived from M. T. Wheeler. :-) (according to her Wikipedia bio)

[Walleye]

8. The problem is the 70 million people who refuse to see the truth in front of them. And voted because they hated women.

I’m convinced that misogyny is at the bottom of all of this. Anti-woke means anti-women.

[Sneederbunk]

9. John Mitchell went to prison.

[OrangeJoe]

12. Crook vs incompetent

John Mitchell was a lying piece of shit bagman for the odious Richard Nixon. Garland is not bent, but rather is a meek little man who was afraid to do his job. Neither one of them should have been placed in the position of running the DOJ.

[Firestorm49]

11. "Greatest failure as AG" - couldn't agree more. We now have to thank our own side for much of this mess.

[Clouds Passing]

15. The timing of the release of the document is inexcusable. The American people had the right to know before the election.

Merrick is an absolute epic failure at protecting our constitution and democracy. He did succeeded at destroying it.

[johnnyfins]

17. Yep

[Ray Bruns]

18. Amen to this.