{"id":1608756,"date":"2022-08-16T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1608756"},"modified":"2022-08-16T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:10:33","slug":"garland-is-a-lamb-about-to-be-slaughtered-by-trump-john-bolton-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/garland-is-a-lamb-about-to-be-slaughtered-by-trump-john-bolton-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Garland Is A \u2018Lamb\u2019 About To Be \u2018Slaughtered\u2019 By Trump, John Bolton Says"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fgarland-is-a-lamb-about-to-be-slaughtered-by-trump-john-bolton-says%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=1608756&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\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-11.27.10-AM-e1660663734658.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland is a \u201clamb\u201d about to be \u201cslaughtered\u201d by former President Donald Trump, former National Security Adviser John Bolton said Tuesday on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day\u201d host John Berman asked Bolton to comment on the Department of Justice\u2019s (DOJ) objection to releasing the search warrant affidavit. Bolton said <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/12\/trump-materials-fbi-seized-declassified-secured-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garland<\/a> is \u201cbeing overwhelmed\u201d politically but that his legal reasoning seems legit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it says there are very significant problems here for President Trump and many of his advisers, post-presidency,\u201d Bolton said. \u201cBut I think we\u2019ve got to distinguish between the legal battle that\u2019s going on and the political battle. I think the Justice Department position sounds perfectly reasonable on the legal battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, however, said when it comes to the political side of things, Garland is being \u201coverwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we were in a Colosseum with two gladiators, one of them Donald Trump, the other Merrick Garland, we\u2019d be about to witness the slaughter of the lambs. The Justice Department understandably wants to follow its normal procedures. It\u2019s facing an adversary who couldn\u2019t care less about the normal procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bolton did say that the department is \u201cnot doing enough\u201d to justify why the search warrant on Mar-a-Lago was executed.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/12\/john-bolton-newsmax-host-eric-bolling-national-security-trump-biden-administration-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Are You Out Of Your Mind Sir\u2019: John Bolton And Newsmax Host Eric Bolling Get Into Blowout)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got to do more to explain what they\u2019re up to,\u201d Bolton said, saying the DOJ needs to have a better PR strategy. \u201cAnd they\u2019ve got to think of creative ways to justify it to a very skeptical public, in many respects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/15\/doj-keep-trump-raid-affidavit-sealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposing the release<\/a> of the underlying warrant that would shed more light on the Aug. 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/12\/donald-trump-immediate-release-documents-fbi-search-warrant-mar-a-lago-garland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raid<\/a>. The DOJ made public the search warrant and property receipt shortly after the raid but Assistant U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez asked a judge not to unseal the warrant affidavit, arguing the release would risk \u201cthe integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The affidavit includes testimony from federal agents justifying the raid as well as witness information.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland is a \u201clamb\u201d about to be \u201cslaughtered\u201d by former President Donald Trump, former National Security Adviser John Bolton said Tuesday on CNN.CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day\u201d host John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"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-1608756","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\/1608756","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608756\/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=1608756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}