INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN: “Merrick Garland has to immediately end Special Counsel investigation into anything related to me because I did everything right, and appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Joe Biden who hates Biden as much as Jack Smith hates me.” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 12, 2023 […]
Tag: Merrick Garland
11/18/2022
2020 ELECTION/DOJ/INVESTIGATIONS: “Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped longtime federal prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee a multi-pronged investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election and the unauthorized transfer of highly classified government documents to his Florida estate after exiting the White House. Garland’s appointment is an attempt to […]
8/11/2022
CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/DOJ/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS: “Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday [August 11, 2022] that he ‘personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant’ for former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and that the Justice Department filed a motion earlier in the day to make the warrant public… Trump defended himself in a statement posted to his […]
1/7/2021
ATTORNEY GENERAL/BIDEN PEOPLE/JOE BIDEN/NOMINATIONS: “I’m proud to nominate Judge Merrick Garland for Attorney General of the United States.“ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 4:00 pm […]
1/7/2021
ATTORNEY GENERAL/BIDEN PEOPLE/JOE BIDEN/NOMINATIONS: “Merrick Garland will serve as the Attorney General of the United States — not as my personal lawyer.“ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 10:03 am […]
9/29/2020
DEMS/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT: “We won the election. Elections have consequences. We have the Senate, we have the White House, and we have a phenomenal [Supreme Court] nominee respected by all… We have plenty of time. Even if we did it after the election itself. I have a lot of time after the election, as you know… […]
9/19/2020
NOMINATIONS/OBAMA/SUPREME COURT: [Reporter: “Sir, President Obama’s pick in 2016, Merrick Garland, didn’t get a chance to move forward. That was an election year. Why should your pick get a chance to move forward in an election year?”] “Well, that’s called ‘the consequences of losing an election.’ He lost the election. He didn’t have the votes. […]