I long suspected that Merrick Garland was a left-wing kook who held a grudge against Republicans for blocking his Supreme Court nomination during the final year of the Obama regime. And when whoever was running Joe Biden’s regime took over, it made complete sense to me why they picked ‘Judge Garland’ to become the attorney general.
So when he allowed himself to become a weaponized tool for extremist Democrats, going after many of those same Republicans as well as conservatives in general and then-former President Donald Trump with a vengeance not seen before, even during Obama’s radicalized reign of terror, again, I wasn’t really surprised. What did surprise me, however, was the brazenness of his actions against a former president. Garland seemed to relish in putting Trump through hell, as though he was punishing the creator of the MAGA movement that denied him his ‘rightful place’ on the nation’s highest court.
At times, it seems like a generation ago when Biden was napping for most of the day and Garland was free to spy on GOP lawmakers and use every federal power he could to ensure Trump would be convicted of something, anything, and then jailed for the remainder of his life. Garland’s plans to ‘get Trump’ were eventually foiled by the same Supreme Court he aspired to taint.
Now, there’s a new sheriff in town, so to speak. After dismissing Pam Bondi, Trump named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanched temporarily to the role of AG, and during his first press conference on Tuesday, he vowed that the stench of politicization under the most incompetent, brain-damaged, compromised president in our history would never be allowed to happen again.
He denied that the Department of Justice was weaponizing its resources to target Trump’s opponents. He stated that their true objective was to restore integrity to the agency after Biden and Garland had turned it into a tool for their personal agenda. “What we’ve been doing is changing the department,” Blanche said:
What we saw, and what President Trump went through, every single prosecutor in this department, you have a duty to do the right thing. You have prosecutors who are absolutely not doing the right thing. …
What happened the last four years is something that will never happen again.
If you were wondering whether Blanche would act shy and reserved, you can forget that idea because he doesn’t tolerate foolishness. “What kind of question is that?” he snapped at a reporter who approached him with a ridiculous inquiry:
He got indicted in Florida, and then he got indicted in D.C., and then they superseded in Florida, and then they superseded in D.C.
Blanche also stated that, similar to Trump, he wants to identify who leaked the information about one of our downed airmen being trapped in enemy territory in Iran. That leak endangered American servicemembers:
“We will investigate, if it means sending a subpoena to the reporter, that’s exactly what we should do, and that’s exactly what we will be doing, if it means doing regular investigations to identify who within the government feels like it’s OK to leak classified information, to put lives at risk, then we’ll try to root him or her out as well.”
“So I’m not going to talk about ongoing investigations except to say that yes, we will always investigate those types of leaks.”
Blanche, who represented Trump in legal cases before joining the Department of Justice, warned fraudsters that he is coming for them:
He said: “We have a storied history of combating fraud and bringing criminal actors to justice.”
It’s not clear who will ultimately be named attorney general, but for now, Blanched is coming out swinging at the opening bell.