At This Point, It Sure Looks Like Biden's Legacy Will Be That He Never Brought Trump To Justice

A Life Of Crime Unpunished

Now that the Supreme Court granted presidents absolute— or blanket— immunity from lawsuits arising from their official acts, Biden could, if he wanted to, go out swinging. An official act would certainly include protecting the 2024 elections… or, more important, protecting the nation from the specter of fascism. Michael Moore, in a bucket list of actions he’d like to see Biden take, included closing Guantanamo— and, while we’re on the subject, end the shameful trade embargo against Cuba. I concur and could never understand why Obama didn’t have the courage to do both of those things, at least in his second term. 

However… there might be something even more important to do with Guantanamo right now than just shutting it down immediately. How about locking up Trump and some of his most dangerous cronies— say Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Vance… characters like that. It would be a very bold move— not Bidenesque at all, but what a powerful statement about protecting the country!

Ending the slaughter in Gaza and Ukraine, declaring the Equal Rights Amendment passed, cancelling student debt and medical debt are all great ideas… none of which Biden would even consider for 2 seconds.

Other than his anger over Hunter, is Biden even cognizant of what a shitty Attorney General he has? D. Earl Stephens, until recently the manager of Stars and Stripes, sure is. “Merrick Garland's failure to protect us from the anti-American madman who attacked our country, and now wants to finish us off,” he wrote,  “has been a catastrophic dereliction of duty unmatched in American history… [I]t is vital we understand that our attorney general’s— the most powerful law enforcement officer in the world— refusal and/or inability to do his job upon his appointment in 2021, has put this country in tremendous danger. He is without a doubt Joe Biden’s greatest mistake, and we must now hold our breaths for the next 30-plus days hoping that that mistake won’t be a tragic footnote to the story about America’s once-great democracy.”

Pelosi would have done a much better job

I was sickened when Obama nominated him to the Supreme Court in 2016, knowing how much the Republicans loved him. They rejected him anyway and Biden made it up to him by appointing him Attorney General 4 years later. We’re talking about the guy who ruled against DC having representatives in Congress (Alexander v Daley). Jamie Raskin wrote at the time that the “denial of the D.C. community's right to be represented in the U.S. Congress violates the rights of Equal Protection, Due Process, a republican form of government, and the privileges and immunities of national citizenship— all critical democratic guarantees of the U.S. Constitution.” I wonder what Obama and Biden thought about that, if anything at all.

[Jack] Smith’s filing includes details of the horrific events surrounding one of the darkest days in American history, January 6, 2021, and Donald Trump’s intent to steal the election. It puts into stunning view the extreme threats on that day to law enforcement officers, HIS VICE PRESIDENT, and our vote.

We have learned among other things, that when Trump was informed of the threats to Mike Pence’s life from his violent mob, his reaction was simply and literally, “So what.”

… [I]nstead of moving with alacrity after his appointment to AG in March of 2021, and leveling the full weight of the law against the disgusting, orange traitor, Garland made the decision to avoid the whole thing like Trump avoids vegetables.

He said little to nothing about it.

We waited.

It literally took the guy well over a year to give us even the slightest hint he was at all interested in doing his job, by bringing Trump and his lieutenants to justice.

Finally, on November 18, 2022, nearly two years after the attack on America, Garland, the alleged grandmaster law-and-order expert carefully considered the board, and deftly put himself in check by pawning off his responsibility to somebody else.

There was never any damn reason for a special counsel. Trump running for office to avoid prosecution might have been the most predictable thing ever, but Garland either didn’t see it coming, or was pathetically blind to its hyper-predictable chances.

By waiting to act, Garland allowed the entire morally bankrupt Republican Party “leadership” to spin all this like some political persecution for the past three years. Many of these very same “leaders” of course came out hard against Trump in the days and weeks following the attack, figuring like we did, that Trump had gone too damn far.

Surely, Biden’s new AG would bring the America-attacking Trump to justice.

Now, with but 33 days until the most important election in American history, there are no guarantees that there ever will be a trial, and that Trump will be held accountable for his high crimes.

All of this doesn't excuse Republicans’ abominable actions throughout the past three-plus years defending their traitorous leader, but all of that should have been anticipated by Garland the very day he was sworn into office.

If we are able to weather the storm that is sure to follow the election in November, no matter who wins, we must demand that Harris makes dumping the pathetic Garland one of the first things on her agenda. We must demand that she replaces him with a person who understands that he or she works for us, the American public.