Donald Trump used the Department of Justice as his own private law firm
and it explains Merrick Garland's slowness to indict
“The question is, it will be up to a court of law if there's an indictment to figure out how the law applies, and to me, the two1 -- obviously thought what they were asking, what Trump was asking was a violation of the law, but the two key points here are, the one you mentioned just a couple of minutes ago about just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen, Trump said that, is a brazen statement."
That’s not a Leftist, a Democrat, or even a non-partisan political observer saying the above.
It’s George Conway III, former conservative Republican, in an interview with Jake Tapper. Conway switched to independent in 2018 which does not remove a smidgen of his conservatism.
Conway continued:
"It had nothing to do with the Justice Department's proper role in enforcing any federal law, it was basically asking the Justice Department to engage in a purely political act and then the draft letter from Clark, it wasn't about the Justice Department engaging, in enforcing federal law. It was urging state legislators to reconsider their slates of electors. These were political acts. Donald Trump was turning the DOJ into a personal, political weapon.” [The emphasis is mine.]
Almost 8 months ago, I opined a number of reasons to explain Merrick Garland’s seemingly detached and reserved approach with regard to the January 6th Insurrection.
“Burrowing in” now sounds like the most likely reason, especially if Trump plans a return to the White House.
