How Merrick Garland Just Helped The GOP Gaslight America

Raw Story ✏ I wasn’t remotely surprised when news started seeping out and spilling all over the Capitol Hill press corps Friday morning that Merrick Garland was about to cave and assign a special counsel to look into the Republicans’ energizer bunny, Hunter Biden. Recommended by Christy Walsh.

D. Earl Stephens

Disgusted? Yes. Surprised? Not in the least.

The buck has never stopped anywhere near the vicinity of Garland since he became our Attorney General in 2021, so of course he was going to put somebody else in charge of looking into whatever it is Republicans have endlessly alleged the hapless Biden of doing, rather than putting his foot down for once and stopping the whole damn thing.

Apparently, this career officer of the law has an endless supply of special counsels hanging in his closet who he can whip out in a pinch to keep him headed in the approximate direction of right and wrong.

It’s a nice accommodation for a guy with a decided lack of spine . . .

. . . Since accepting the AG position, Garland has relentlessly proven himself to be the wrong man at the wrong time during the most perilous period in our nation since the Civil War.

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