{"id":1556144,"date":"2022-07-15T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556144"},"modified":"2022-07-15T10:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:19:13","slug":"msnbc-host-questions-garlands-suitability-after-trump-not-prosecuted-for-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-host-questions-garlands-suitability-after-trump-not-prosecuted-for-jan-6\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Host Questions Garland\u2019s Suitability After Trump Not Prosecuted For Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmsnbc-host-questions-garlands-suitability-after-trump-not-prosecuted-for-jan-6%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556144&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DCNF-Hasan-Garland-Fired-Featured-e1657891825965.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>A MSNBC host said Thursday that Attorney General Merrick Garland might be the wrong person for the job because former president Donald Trump is not being prosecuted over the riot at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people have found themselves wondering if maybe giving the job of attorney general as a kind of consolation prize to Merrick Garland was not the best move when what the country needed was an AG ready and willing and able to prosecute an attack on our democracy, including possibly prosecuting the former president of the United States,\u201d Mehdi Hasan said on \u201cMSNBC Prime.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/merrick-garland-hunter-biden-special-counsel\/\">(RELATED: AG Garland Denies Need For Hunter Biden Special Counsel, Says He Is \u2018Quite Comfortable\u2019 With Current Prosecutor)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, no one is disputing that Merrick Garland is an accomplished judge, a brilliant legal thinker, and by all accounts, a good guy,\u201d Hasan continued. \u201cBut as the months have ticked by since the January 6 attack, more than 18 months, there has been little sign that his Justice Department is preparing to prosecute anyone beyond the foot soldiers who carried out the attack itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hasan cited a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/11\/opinion\/january-6-trump-merrick-garland.html\">op-ed<\/a> by former prosecutor Andrew Weissman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/02\/us\/politics\/merrick-garland-biden-trump.html\">reports<\/a> that President Joe Biden expressed frustration with the Justice Department\u2019s investigation. Democrats and liberals have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/04\/biden-firing-merrick-garland-rubin-joaquin-castro\/\">criticized<\/a> Garland for what they claim is inaction against Donald Trump, with some pundits and politicians calling for his firing.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;little sign the Justice Department is prosecuting&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}