One of President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers blasted Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden administration for what they put the former president through.
The incoming counselor to the president, Alina Habba, reacted to reports that President Joe Biden was not happy with the Justice Department’s prosecution of his soon-to-be successor.
“Joe Biden is playing the blame game now. He’s blaming, blaming Merrick Garland. He’s saying he wasn’t tough enough on Donald Trump. What do you make of that?” Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy asked Habba as she filled in as guest host on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
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“Aww. He wasn’t tough enough, was it not tough enough?” Habba responded. “When we spent three and a half years with indictments, shams, and hoaxes with cases, and the man had to go all night to go campaign while other people like Joe Biden were asleep on Rehoboth Beach.”
“He had it rough! He had it so rough! But he came out on top because America saw what they did,” she added.
In a Washington Post profile this week, Biden was said to have regretted his decision to name Garland as Attorney General.
“In private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as attorney general, complaining about the Justice Department’s slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden’s son Hunter, according to people familiar with his comments,” the report stated.
The outlet went on to say that Democrats believe the choice of Garland as AG had “devastating results.”
“Had the Justice Department moved faster to prosecute Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents, they say, the former president might have faced a politically damaging trial before the election,” WaPo reported.
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Biden’s closest aides, former Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE) and Mark Gitenstein, reportedly were pushing the president to choose former Alabama state Senator Doug Jones as attorney general instead.
Habba ripped into the DOJ’s persecution of Trump and how efforts to throw him behind bars backfired.
“You know Merrick Garland. He should be ashamed of himself, what he did, sending DOJs into New York, into New York, going after my client, going after President Trump, and going after America,” she said.
“It wasn’t just about President Trump. It was about our Constitution. It was about the foundation of this country. And they wanted to turn us into a third-world country, into a banana republic. And they failed,” Habba declared.
“And, you know, shifting blame to Kamala, him saying things like, I could have beat Trump. It’s just a joke. You couldn’t have beat him. You didn’t beat him,” she continued “And that’s what that’s why we won. We won majorly.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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