President Joe Biden is reportedly angry that Attorney General Merrick Garland didn’t prosecute President-elect Donald Trump more aggressively.
Biden reportedly said he wished he had picked someone else for the job, The Washington Post reported, citing the president’s complaints about Garland’s prosecution of Trump.
“In private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as attorney general, complaining about the Justice Department’s slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden’s son Hunter, according to people familiar with his comments,” the Post reported.
The Post went on to report that Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, pushed for Garland, claiming that as a federal judge, Garland would be seen as nonpartisan in an era when the Department of Justice was viewed as partisan due to its treatment of Trump during his presidency.
But choosing Garland led many in Biden’s circles to believe the department – which prosecuted Trump, his supporters, and pro-life activists – was too centered.
“Biden was persuaded, and some Democrats believe the decision had devastating results,” the Post reported of Biden’s decision to nominate Garland. “Had the Justice Department moved faster to prosecute Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents, they say, the former president might have faced a politically damaging trial before the election.”
“(Others blame the Supreme Court and a Trump-appointed judge in Florida for repeatedly siding with the former president and delaying the cases; the Justice Department declined to comment),” the Post continued.
Trump, as president, had the power to declassify documents as he saw fit, and the Post ignores in this section that classified documents were found in Biden’s garage. As vice president under Obama, Biden had no power to declassify documents and faced no charges for taking them.
In that same Post article, Biden and his aides said they believed the current president would have won re-election if he had stayed in the race instead of dropping out, The Daily Wire reported.
Biden dropped out after a dismal debate performance that showed the American people that his health was declining and he could no longer function as president. Instead of holding a democratic vote to find a new candidate, Biden quickly endorsed his wildly unpopular vice president, Kamala Harris. Harris went on to lose the election badly, winning not even a single swing state.
