According to a new analysis from Franklin Foer, a journalist for The Atlantic who’s been closely observing Biden DOJ Attorney General Merrick Garland for several months now, a criminal indictment against corrupt, scandal-ridden ex-President Trump from the US Department of Justice is now “inevitable.”
Foer was sure to point out in his new Atlantic piece, titled, The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump, that he has no personal insider knowledge of the Attorney General or any of Merrick Garland’s possible impending plans with regard to the former president and his mounting legal perils. However, based on how closely he has followed Garland and his recent moves in the case, Foer personally feels that Marrick Garland is currently preparing to officially press criminal charges against the 45th president of the United States — if for no other reason than Garland’s dedication to the rule of law leaves him with no other choice in the matter.
Foer argues from his vantage point, “An indictment would be a signal to Trump, as well as to would-be imitators, that no one is above the law. This is the principle that has animated Garland’s career, which began as the Justice Department was attempting to reassert its independence, and legitimacy, after the ugly meddling of the Nixon years.”
But he doesn’t stop there. The Atlantic analyst goes on to take a deeper look at Marrick Garland’s career as a whole — and more specifically, the clear evidence that Merrick Garland is, at his core, an institutionalist. Foer theorizes that, at the bottom of it all, Garland would desperately love to avoid a Trump indictment, as he’s painfully aware of the violent political firestorm such a move would inevitably ignite, in the day and age of violent Trumpism in America.
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However, as Foer notes, Trump’s laundry list of sickening crimes has seemed to bring out a new side of the AG.
“When Trump began to assail the search of Mar-a-Lago, Garland asked the court to unseal the inventory of seized documents, essentially calling out the ex-president’s lies,” Foer writes in his analysis. “Rather than passively watching attacks on FBI agents, whom Trump scurrilously accused of planting evidence, Garland passionately backed the bureau. As Trump’s lawyers have tried to use a sympathetic judge to slow down the department’s investigation, Garland’s lawyers have responded with bluntly dismissive briefs, composed without the least hint of deference.”
The Atlantic analysis ultimately concludes with Foer’s opinion that Garland will only move forward with a criminal indictment against former President Trump if the AG believes that the evidence against him is undeniable and overwhelming. Foer believes that criteria has already been met.
“Every time he’s asked about the former president, he responds, ‘No one is above the law,'” Foer notes. “He clearly gets frustrated that his answer fails to satisfy his doubters. I believe that his indictment of Trump will prove that he means it.”
Read the full analysis here.
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