Merrick Garland was smart enough not to say anything incriminating on the stand. He did face an intense grilling from conservative lawmakers. Nobody expected him to actually answer any of their key questions but he did get an earful of abuse for several hours.
Merrick Garland takes the stand
Attorney General Merrick Garland took the stand in front of Congress to inform America that he hasn’t done anything wrong and neither has anyone who works for him in the DOJ, FBI or any of the other agencies he oversees.
Since he really runs the country, everything they say or do is totally legal, always.
On Wednesday, September 20, Garland insisted that “the Hunter Biden investigation never faced obstacles” from him or anyone else at the Just Us Department. He very carefully “refused to say whether he’s spoken to special counsel David Weiss or anyone else about the sprawling probe.”
Every single American citizen needs to watch this interaction between Rep. Victoria Spartz and AG Merrick Garland.
Spartz is SPOT ON in her diagnosis of the corrupt DOJ. pic.twitter.com/F8z7QECOUC
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) September 20, 2023
Over and over he swore up and down that “he had stuck to his vow before the Senate not to get involved in the five-year-old investigation of the first son for potential violations of tax, lobbying, and weapons laws.” He didn’t need to. The fix was already in. David Weiss was an old buddy of Beau Biden and his deputy prosecutor, Derek Hines a close friend of Biden family mole Louis “One Eye” Freeh. The AG didn’t mention those fun facts.
Conservative Republicans have “scrutinized the Biden Justice Department after two IRS whistleblowers testified earlier this year that political appointees interfered in the probe.”
They insist that Hunter should have been charged with real crimes and might have been if they had actually been allowed to do their job and investigate the Biden family. Garland wasn’t lying to Congress, just very careful to stick with a narrowly crafted tale. It may be the truth but not the whole truth and certainly not nothing but the truth.
Blocked at every turn
When IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley, who took notes, testified to Congress along with IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler, they claimed that “they were blocked from taking certain investigative steps.” They wanted to raid a storage area until Hunter’s lawyers got a call they were coming. They wanted to do a surprise interview, again, Hunter was tipped off they were coming.
They wanted to interview Biden family members. Nope. They never saw Hunter’s laptop. They never even heard about the FD-1023 form which formed the core of how their investigation got started. Nobody heard what was in that one until Senator Charles Grassley read it out loud on the Senate floor. Garland and his minions have been scrambling like cockroaches ever since.
The IRS investigators testified that they were told that Weiss didn’t have the authority to bring charges. Garland insists that Weiss had all the authority he needed, for the asking. He simply didn’t ask.
Impeach Merrick Garland pic.twitter.com/TdHuGsTQ3G
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) September 20, 2023
Weiss knew better than to ask a question he didn’t want answered. Like the way that F-35 pilot didn’t ask if he should bail out first. The big takeaway there is that the agents were simply fed a story designed to shut them up. It didn’t.
Garland wasn’t about to call the witnesses “liars.” He practically admitted that from their perspective they were telling the truth. They just didn’t have the benefit of the inside knowledge that there was never any intention to file any charges at all. There was even an agreement with Hunter’s lawyers to that effect.
One diabolically signed in blood and buried in the deferred prosecution agreement for the gun possession incident. Hunter’s lawyers insist the deal still stands and that Hunter can never be actually charged with anything at all, ever.