Stephan: I do not believe it is possible for a rational person who cares about facts to doubt that Donald Trump is a criminal who attempted to overthrow America's democracy. One could not listen to Monday morning's Jan 6th hearings and come away with any other conclusion than that Trump had been told multiple times by his closest circle that he had lost the election yet continued to work to overturn the legal election. So he knew the situation, yet continued to hold the intent.
What I took away from today's hearing was, with matters that clear and indisputable, will Merrick Garland finally act? If the people who created the insurrection, particularly the head person, Trump, are not held accountable what stops the next fascist-oriented president from doing the same or worse?
Personally, I think Merrick Garland should have resigned months ago allowing Biden to appoint a new attorney general, one more like Eric Holder. What is really clear to me is that if only the citizens who assaulted the Capitol are prosecuted, and those who set them in motion get away scot-free, you condemn the United States to future assaults on our democracy, and fatally weaken it.
Attorney General Merrick Garland
Eric Holder, the former frontline prosecutor and local judge who served as Barack Obama’s first attorney general, was never a fan of Donald Trump, but he responded cautiously in 2019 when asked whether Trump should face prosecution even after he left office. “I think there is a potential cost to the nation by putting on trial a former president, and that ought to at least be a part of the calculus that goes into the determination that has to be made by the next attorney general,” Holder told David Axelrod in a CNN interview. But in the wake of the January 6 riot and related investigations, Holder’s view appears to have significantly hardened. Appearing in early May on CBS News’ Face the Nation, Holder offered a tougher assessment: “At some point, people at the Justice Department, perhaps that prosecutor in Atlanta, are going to have to make a determination about whether or not they want to indict Donald Trump.” Asked by interviewer Margaret Brennan if he would issue such a […]
Never forget that this is the man Obama thought worthy to serve on the Supreme Court. If he does nothing he will continue the lesson to the American Public that the swamp protects its own.
Terri Quint
on Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 7:43 am
When Holder commented on Trump’s criminal actions, little was actually known until the Jan. 6th investigation and, boy, do we know a lot now!
With regard to Merrick Garland, he would have been the perfect Supreme Court justice, but he’s not aggressive enough as the AG and, frankly, he should be replaced with someone who is a real go-getter prosecutor.
Never forget that this is the man Obama thought worthy to serve on the Supreme Court. If he does nothing he will continue the lesson to the American Public that the swamp protects its own.
When Holder commented on Trump’s criminal actions, little was actually known until the Jan. 6th investigation and, boy, do we know a lot now!
With regard to Merrick Garland, he would have been the perfect Supreme Court justice, but he’s not aggressive enough as the AG and, frankly, he should be replaced with someone who is a real go-getter prosecutor.