You probably recall around this time last year hearing the news about the pro-life Catholic father of seven whose home was raided<\/a> at gunpoint by more than a dozen FBI agents for the crime of sidewalk counseling outside an abortion facility. You\u2019ve definitely heard of the many prosecuted J6 demonstrators, more than 1,100<\/a> of whom have been charged with crimes. Some have been sentenced to 18-plus years in federal prison on terrorism<\/a> charges. And while the name Douglass Mackey<\/a> probably doesn\u2019t mean anything to you, his crime of trying to be funny on the internet with a satirical Hillary meme in 2016, and his resulting sentence that could land him in jail for 10 years courtesy of Biden\u2019s DOJ, might ring a bell.<\/p>\n

All the while, pregnancy center firebombers roam free, as do Black Lives Matter vandals and arsonists, and Democrats can interfere in elections with impunity. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it\u2019s hard to take Attorney General Merrick Garland seriously when he says, with a straight face, \u201cWe do not have one rule for Republicans and another rule for Democrats. We don\u2019t have one rule for foes and another for friends. We don\u2019t have one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless, for the rich or for the poor, or based on ethnicity. We have only one rule, and that rule is that we follow the facts and the law, and we reach the decisions required by the Constitution, and we protect civil liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n

That quote was just one snippet from a sitdown \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview<\/a> with host Scott Pelley that aired Sunday, the entirety of which was unbelievable propaganda, complete with fawning media framing, crocodile tears, and bald-faced lies from our country\u2019s ostensible head law enforcer.<\/p>\n

Merrick Garland, the Victim<\/h2>\n
To hear Pelley tell it, in the grand scheme of federal crime and punishment, Garland is the real victim. \u201cMerrick Garland\u2019s Justice Department is prosecuting both former President Trump and the son of President Biden,\u201d began the CBS host, setting up a facade of DOJ fairness. \u201cCaught in the middle is this 70-year-old former prosecutor and well-respected judge with a long history as a moderate.\u201d Ah, yes, the elderly, apolitical gentleman is just caught in the middle between one former president whose corruption and classified documents he treats with kid gloves and cover-ups, and another former president on whose estate he personally authorized a raid<\/a> over similar \u2014 but better-secured \u2014 documents.<\/p>\n
Pelley continued: \u201cIn a rare interview, the attorney general told us that in the Trump and Biden trials ahead, his prosecutors will pursue justice without fear and without favor.\u201d (Scout\u2019s honor.)<\/p>\n
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But Pelley\u2019s lapdoggery was only the beginning. Bringing up the Trump indictments, Pelley implored Garland to \u201chelp us understand the timing,\u201d gently pointing out that the DOJ\u2019s prosecution of the former president and 2024 GOP front-runner is happening during the presidential campaign and thus arguably at \u201cthe worst possible time.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cJustice Department prosecutors are nonpartisan. They don\u2019t allow partisan considerations to play any role in their determinations,\u201d Garland insisted, stating that the DOJ has a practice of not indicting \u201cwithin a month or so\u201d of an election. Prosecutors simply gather evidence and present it as it comes to light, making charges as soon as they have all the facts buttoned up, he maintained.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigation itself has determined the timing,\u201d Pelley chimed in, lobbing a softball to Garland as if to clarify the attorney general\u2019s answer. \u201cYes, exactly right,\u201d Garland replied.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to believe, though, for anyone who followed the deep state\u2019s role in the Russia-collusion hoax, or the disparate treatment of various possessors of classified documents. Or for anyone who lived through the Hunter Biden laptop fiasco, a piece of evidence incredibly damning to Joe Biden which the FBI had reportedly secretly verified<\/a> roughly a year before the 2020 presidential election \u2014 long before the DOJ\u2019s \u201cmonth or so\u201d window. It\u2019s no wonder nearly 4 in 5 Americans<\/a> perceive a two-tiered system of justice in the country, despite Garland\u2019s empty assurances, and why with each Trump indictment his polling seems to improve.<\/p>\n
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Friends with Benefits<\/h2>\n
Then the AG and his interviewer spent a few minutes trying to distance Biden\u2019s Justice Department from Biden himself, engaging in a series of leading questions intended to demonstrate that Garland is in no way beholden to the wishes of his boss, the president of the United States. This back-and-forth culminated in a lighthearted clip of Biden quipping about how infrequently he sees his attorney general. <\/p>\n
Here, the two also touched on David Weiss, the Delaware U.S. attorney whom Garland appointed as special counsel over the Hunter Biden investigation. CBS neglected to acknowledge the sweetheart deal Weiss had previously cut with the Biden son, which included a ploy to get broad immunity for Hunter and his dad via a sneaky pretrial diversion agreement. Nor did it mention the skulduggery from Garland and Weiss over whether Weiss really had \u201c full authority<\/a>\u201d to charge Hunter Biden, complete with walkbacks and misleading Congress.<\/p>\n
Instead, Pelley let Garland double \u2014 or rather, quadruple \u2014 down on his claim that the AG is not involved in Hunter Biden charging decisions and that the authority rests solely with Weiss. In the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview, there\u2019s simply no journalism to be found.<\/p>\n
Crocodile Tears<\/h2>\n
And then came the waterworks. \u201cPolitical violence\u201d and \u201cdemocracy\u201d got Garland all choked up, with Pelley mentioning multiple times that it\u2019s because two of the AG\u2019s ancestors were killed in the Holocaust. That\u2019s ostensibly what\u2019s motivating Garland\u2019s fervor for mercilessly locking up Jan. 6 demonstrators (unless your name is Ray Epps<\/a>). In fact, he says the DOJ is still looking for defendants to charge \u2014 because \u201cdemocracy.\u201d It\u2019s curious why Garland didn\u2019t see fit to go after left-wing demonstrators who threatened Supreme Court justices outside their homes. That political violence and those illegal attempts to sway the justices away from returning abortion to the democratic process didn\u2019t matter to Garland\u2019s DOJ until it escalated to a literal assassination plot<\/a> to take out conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n
Yet Garland declares: \u201cI represent the American people. I don\u2019t represent the president, I represent the American people. And likewise, I am not Congress\u2019s prosecutor. I work for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sort of reminds you of President \u201cUnity\u201d Biden, a commander-in-chief for all \u2014 unless you\u2019re an ultra-MAGA Republican. Biden\u2019s attorney general likewise works for the American people \u2014 unless you happened to be in D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, work in a pregnancy center, protest outside abortion facilities, are a traditional Catholic<\/a>, are a victim of left-wing violence, or are a conservative Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n
As for the attorney general\u2019s greatest hope, it\u2019s that \u201cwe can pass our democracy on in working order to the next generation that picks up the torch and is responsible when we\u2019re finished to continue that job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thanks to the law-crushing likes of Merrick Garland and the partisan press that aids and abets him, when they\u2019re finished, that hope will be dead \u2014 if it isn\u2019t already.<\/p>\n
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