PLEASE, AG Merrick Garland … Do the Right Thing!

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If we fail to hold Donald Trump, John Eastman, and all the members of Congress who played a role in the attempted coup of January 6th, then we are basically telling all future presidents that there will be no punishment for any criminal activities in which they might engage while in office.  Period.  Close your eyes and imagine a future president, say a President Gaetz, forcing himself on White House staff members, making sex with him a requisite of the job.  Imagine a President Cruz taking money under the table from the next Russian president in exchange for refusing to assist the next country Russia attacks.  Imagine President Manchin negotiating with the coal and oil companies to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, or … well, just let your imagination run wild for a few minutes.

Those of you who are parents … you give your kids a time out or some other humanitarian punishment when they knowingly do something wrong, yes?  Why do you do this?  Because you know they must learn that actions have consequences, that if you steal from a schoolmate or punch a younger kid, you will pay the price.  If you lie, you will pay the price.  People like Donald Trump were never disciplined and grew up thinking that they were somehow ‘special’, not accountable for their actions.  When one of these people gets into a public office, they assume that it’s their private play space, that they can do anything they please because they have “the power”, they assume they are untouchable, invincible.  If the courts and the Justice Department of the United States fail to charge or indict and convict Donald Trump and his co-conspirators for not only their role in the January 6th attempted coup, but the entire batch of underhanded attempts to overturn our election by subverting the Justice Department, seeking to corrupt states attorneys general and more, then they are complicit in creating the monster that will be the next person to sit at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

There are no grey areas here, no moral equivalencies, no doubts whatsoever.  Donald Trump and his minions attempted treason.  They failed … this time.  They, or whomever is the next president, will have learned from their mistakes and will not likely fail again.  No, my friends, I am not an alarmist, not being overly dramatic … I am stating facts based on a) common sense, b) logic, and c) what I can see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

I have heard numerous legal experts opine that to charge Trump would be to go down a road fraught with obstacles.  That there is no precedent for actually charging a former president for criminal activity seems to be a big stumbling block – it shouldn’t be, but apparently it is.  Now, these legal experts have far more knowledge than I do about the ins and outs of the law, but I am not completely witless, and I know that he cannot be allowed to get by with his crimes.  I know that NOW is the time we MUST prove to the world that NOBODY in the United States, not even the president, is above the law.  Failure to do so … is simply not an option.

There is also a concern among legal scholars, and likely within the Department of Justice, that in the current polarized political environment, Trump would be seen as the ‘victim of a witch hunt’ or a political voodoo doll.  Some of the legal scholars say he might have a valid defense by claiming that he lacked criminal intent because he truly believed that massive voter fraud had taken place.  Bullshit.  If nothing else, we have learned from various people testifying in the January 6th committee hearings that Trump was told repeatedly by every expert from then-Attorney General William Barr to various states’ Attorneys General that he spoke with, to his own lawyers and even his daughter that he lost.  Period.  He disregarded all but a drunken Rudy Giuliani and a cunning John Eastman not because he believed he won, but because he had a plan to stay in office by hook or by crook.  And if by some remote chance, despite all the evidence, he did still believe he won, then he is seriously deranged and unfit to remain in society, let alone run for any public office.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is in a tough spot, for he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.  For the sake of this nation, for the future of our children, the future of the world as we know it, he must do the right thing!

34 thoughts on “PLEASE, AG Merrick Garland … Do the Right Thing!”

  2. With the court-ordered search of dopey Jeffrey Clark’s home and confiscation of evil Eastman’s phone, I think it’s clear the DOJ is closing in on trump. Indictment is one thing, though—conviction is another. One undeterred trumpie can result in a hung jury. But I now think that’s a risk Garland must take—and though we’re in for tough times either way, I trust him to follow the evidence.

    Tomorrow’s surprise Jan 6 Committee hearing should be really something! I have a Dr appt, so I’ll be taking my earbuds and watching on C-SPAN, hoping the doc is either very quick or very late.

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    • I agree … things seem to be moving and I’m glad! There is, after all, a time limit, for if the Republicans should gain a majority in the House in November, the January 6th committee will be shut down and relegated to the annals of history.

      Yes, I was very surprised when I first got the ‘breaking news’ that there would be another hearing tomorrow! Luckily, I don’t have anything on my docket, so I’ll be glued to my computer screen! I hope you manage to catch most of it, that your doc is understanding!

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  3. Et tu, Brute?
    California Drops ‘Good Cause’ Requirement for Concealed Carry Following SCOTUS 2A Ruling
    What’s next, free automatic weapons for every citizen? *Sigh*

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  4. Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
    Agree!! — I don’t know if he will and that isn’t a comfortable feeling. Neither should there be a doubt about what the right thing is ! — “Attorney General Merrick Garland is in a tough spot, for he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. For the sake of this nation, for the future of our children, the future of the world as we know it, he must do the right thing!”

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  6. Unfortunately, New York State copped out when they had the chance to charge Trump. Action against Trump will probably be in court for years, and/or come to the same justices who ruled so partisanly this week. Doing the right thing involves a lot of people stepping up, some of whom have already shown an inability to do that.

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    • Yes, that was a huge disappointment. But, would he have gone to prison even if NY had proceeded? I somehow doubt it. I think that for some reason I do not understand, the GOP has sold their soul to Donald Trump, has declared him their king, and whatever he says goes, perhaps even in the courts … the ‘non-partisan’ courts. Question for you, as I value your logical thinking: do you think he can and will win in 2024, assuming he runs?

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  7. Jill, it should be noted, the former president has made a career of thumbing his nose at the law and court decisions. Just yesterday, he is continuing his diatribe against those “wimps” who upheld their oath and did their jobs and would not break the law for Donald J. Trump. If we do not hold people who betrayed our country accountable, then what are laws for? Please see my current post called “Under oath” where I mention only a few examples. Keith

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    • Indeed he has. I was just telling someone else that yes, he has been a criminal for all his adult life and broke the law many, many times in his business dealings, discriminating against minorities in both rental and hiring practices, refusing to pay contractors for work performed, and much more. Something is bothering me about his recent ‘rallies’ and ‘rants’ … WHY is the media giving him a public voice? I said when he left office that the press needs to ignore him, send him into the bins of history. Yet, his name and ugly mug are on just about every news venue every single day. He can’t fart without us knowing it! Sigh. I will check out your post in just a few … I took a much-needed break from blogging or reading news or posts or anything today, so I’m way behind!

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      • Jill, the media has always covered him too much highlighting every mistake and twitch. This over coverage left people numb and they missed the greater sins. Keith

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        • Agreed. But wouldn’t you think that since he’s been out of office for a year-and-a-half, they would have tired of him by now? Oh yeah … “If it bleeds, it leads”. They are doing this nation a huge disservice by allowing him this much coverage, this much power. Within 15 minutes of the close of today’s (now yesterday’s) January 6th committee hearing, we had already seen his vile response to Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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  8. Jan. 6, 2021 started 4 years earlier, and it can be possibly proved before even that.That said Trump lied about the size of his inauguration crowd, because he cannot let anyone be or do anything better than him. He lied all through his term as pseudo-President of the United States of America, and he is still lieing today. The man is a habitual liar, which may not be a crime in and of itself, but it leads to all kinds of crimes he committed during his presidential Reign of Terror! He broke laws with impunity. He destroyed most of what the USA had taken 240 years building. Not everything he did was criminal, but it was done with crim8nal intent. Even dissing the Queen of England was done intentionally. Trump suffers from delusion of grandiosity and megalomania. Besides being a criminal he is stark raving mad. And maybe that is what is holding Garland back. If he indicts and convicts Trump, he admits to the world the American people allowed a fool to become President. Internationally that can be quite embarrassing. And it lakes a great man to accept responsibility, even when he, Garland, is not dkrectly responsiblle for anything Trump did. Probably, he is trying to save face where face cannot be saved! The man is a grade A coward!

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    • Well, the situation that culminated in the events of January 6th certainly does go back to even before the 2016 election, but at that point, I honestly believe Trump thought he wouldn’t win in 2016 … even some of his closest friends and advisors have said he did not expect to win. Truth be told, he did NOT win, but the Electoral College slid him into the Oval Office anyway. Trump is a criminal … that was true even before he decided to run for office … his business dealings have always been suspect and he was charged with many a crime over the years and bought his way out. And, he is a nasty piece of work … no respect for anyone, not even his own family. The only way to rid the U.S. of this terrible plague is to imprison the ‘man’ for the rest of his life. Period. There is no other solution.

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      • As far as I am concerned, Trump didn’t care if he won the popularity election, the fix was already in. Many in the Electoral College were already bought and paid for. My problem is, no one ever looked into that. And by the time he lost the next election, no one even remembered to look.

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        • Nah, I doubt that there was any wrongdoing with those elected to the Electoral College. The wrongdoing comes in the electoral maps, the gerrymandering of states maps to ensure that white folk will win the most districts.

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          • I don’t understand America politics, I freely admit that. But did he really have all those Electoral College votes based on the popular vote. He won by a majority of Electoral College votes, but was he supposed to have that many? The whole run-up to the 2016 election he msy have fsked concern about losing, but every time I heard him speak, he sounded very sure he would win. So it seemed very suspicious he won, at least to me??

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    • Absolutely so! But … ol’ Mitch McConnell said that it was almost election time (9 months, I believe, is what he coined ‘almost’), so he wouldn’t even allow the Senate to talk to Garland. But then … when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died just a month before the 2020 election, McConnell raced … yes, literally raced … to get the Barrett woman confirmed. And look where we are now. Sigh.

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  10. Sometimes, when these politicians are, pressured too hard, then, they will finally, do what’s right for thd people, but, they would have to get pushed to, one more step, off the edges, and, nothing like that’s, happened in the world yet, so, the corruption of all of these, politicians continues, for, another, day…

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    • You’re right … there is some point at which they capitulate and remember their oaths, but ONLY when their very livelihood is threatened. When they see their numbers plummet in the polls, then maybe they pay lip-service for a while, but basically they are going to do whatever is most financially advantageous for themselves.

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  12. And there is no middle ground here. He tried to subvert the law and must pay for that as must all of those who went forward claiming election Fraud knowing Trump had lost. Texas writing into their constitution that they believe Trump won and Biden is not the President does not make it so. It’s either proof that the GOP are trying to defraud the voters of the US or proof positive that they are not bright enough to occupy the position they do. The Trump family businesses are run on FRAUD, just look at the failed University, it’s time there was payment for that with someone sitting in a cell. Make sure there are no other ventures like this in the future by displaying Justice for the people.

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    • No, there is no middle ground whatsoever. I agree that he and every other person who played a role, whether in the planning & plotting, or the actual attempt to storm the Capitol, must pay … otherwise, they will be emboldened to try yet again. It wasn’t the Texas state Constitution, only the Texas Republican’s ‘platform’, so there is nothing ‘official’ about it … it isn’t law, just what the Republicans in Texas stand for … which is mostly bigotry, greed, and hate. I wish New York had persisted, but apparently they’ve given up trying to prosecute him. And the arrogant prick took ‘credit’ such as it is for Friday’s Supreme Court decision on abortion … that in itself is enough reason to put him in prison for life! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
      Cwtch

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