Jesus Christ here is another one, god dammit!!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

https://www.threads.net/@deanobeidallah/post/C3GlMunJwyv/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Why would Merrick Garland pick as special counsel to investigate Biden a diehard GOPer who Trump liked so much that he personally appointed him US Atty of Maryland in 2018?! That explains the BS in the report on Biden's memory. This was a political hit job!!

[claudette]

1. Yes, it was

Magats play dirty. I despise the orange criminal and every magat on this earth.

[The Magistrate]

6. A Pleasure To Be In Agreement, Ma'am

Too many among our leadership seem to think there really is some great scorer in the sky, who asks not did you win or lose, but how you play the game. There isn't, and down here nobody much cares either. Who wields power, and who does not, is all that matters.

[yliza]

19. They really do. They're flooding the zone with their high-decibel hollering right now

The colossal rake-stomp in Congress yesterday has been shoved out of the news cycle. Instead it’s dogpile on Biden, with no mention of how utterly inappropriate it was for Hur to make those remarks.

[dalton99a]

2. Yep. Hur is a devout Trump cultist

[dchill]

3. That's just Merrick, bending over to be fair...

...he just never found out that you're supposed to bend over backwards.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Goddamn infuriating, why does Garland do this!!!

[dchill]

5. It obvious to me that his purported "fairness..."

...is heavily weighted by his Federalist leanings. Leanings are usually definably not upright.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. I know, I just have to be careful how I say it.

I do not understand why he is still in that position.

Not to mention that the ridiculous two year delay in appointing the special council will be why Trump skates on everything.

Or as Dean Obeidallah points out Cori Bush is investigated but Jim Jordan and others are not investigated for being 100% involved in an insurrection.

[dchill]

9. People who say they don't want to appear to be doing...

...things that are "too political" are busy making careers out of being political. That doesn't explain why he's still in that position, but it also DOES.

[limbicnuminousity]

30. So it isn't a matter of personal animus?

Garland is the kind of guy who would pick a name out of a hat? It's a genuine question, I don't know enough about Merrick Garland to have a feel for this. Why would he orchestrate a hitjob?

[dchill]

31. Uh, he's bending over to be fair.

Pretty sure he knows who he picked.

[gab13by13]

8. Well then Eliot

maybe I shouldn't tell you this but, the special counsel, Weiss, who indicted Hunter Biden, was also appointed a US Marshall by Trump.

Also, remember when Trump fired Comey? Magat Senator Mike Lee went to Trump and recommended that Trump replace Comey with, hmm, um, er, Merrick Garland.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Maddening

[Beastly Boy]

15. How quickly we forget when it is convenient for something to be forgotten.

Lee wanted Garland out of the DC Court of Appeals, for Trump to appoint a conservative judge there. Got nowhere with that.

Maddening!

[Takket]

11. let me know the next time appointing a rethug so rethugs won't complain about something

works out well for Democrats.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. Thank you

[jalan48]

13. A red flag went up for me when McConnell voted to confirm Garland.

[Beastly Boy]

14. A simple answer

When a Republican exonerates Biden (the eventual outcome which I suspect Garland was expecting regardless of the SC's political affiliation), the SC's decision leaves no possibility of doubt, even among Biden's staunchest detractors. All they are left to drool over is a supposed SC's remark about Biden's age, which, upon elementary examination, turns out to not be the SC's remark about Biden's age.

[TwilightZone]

17. Yep.

We've chosen to fixate on the petty nonsense tacked on to the report instead of the big picture, which is that a Republican SC not only did not find anything to charge but clearly detailed why President Biden was not charged and Trump was.

We're missing the forest for the moss growing under one rock.

[The Magistrate]

18. Not Really, Sir

He'll be just one more RINO Deep State operative whose disloyalty to MAGA is unmasked by refusal to charge the obviously guilty old crooked Joe with all the crimes he committed.

[doc03]

16. Trump had Bill Barr to redact anything he didn't like from

the Meuller report. We never found out for years what was redacted.

[rubbersole]

20. Let's not forget that Garland was approved for a Supreme Court...

..nomination by none other than that liberal stalwart Orrin Hatch. Obama asked his advice and took it. Mitch McTurtle screwed them both.

[Sky Jewels]

22. Obama originally picked Garland

because he thought he’d be palatable to the GQP.

Can’t really express my thoughts safely on these topics….

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. Understood, we can't say what we, never mind

Isn’t there a federalist Society connection to Merrick Garland?

[Sky Jewels]

29. He moderated several of their events and was listed as an "expert" on their website.

This article is 8 years old but outlines his involvement with that group.

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2016/03/judge-merrick-garland-was-a-repeat-moderator-for-federalist-society-events.html

[Rhiannon12866]

21. On MSNBC tonight this was compared to the remarks by James Comey.

[Irish_Dem]

23. There's something very wrong with Garland.

I don't know what it is exactly.

[triron]

24. Indeed. He needs to go.

[Irish_Dem]

25. He hires a man who is partisan and unprofessional.

A total slime ball.

And he didn't realize it until it was too late?

Something is very off here.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Garland had no idea that his guy was a partisan hack and unprofessional?

[The Unmitigated Gall]

27. I've defended Garland before.

No more.
This is beyond the pale.
Just as the national media is coming around to considering Trump's obvious cognitive decline, out comes this POS.

AG Garland is now the second to allow unqualified, musing opinions to be released in what should be purely a factual document.

Unforgivable.