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Tulsi Gabbard puts AG Garland on the spot for saying DOJ criticism ‘dangerous and outrageous’

September 13, 2024 | | Print Article

Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard put Attorney General Merrick Garland on the spot Thursday after he warned that it’s very “dangerous and outrageous” for anyone to criticize the actions of the Department of Justice.

“I would tell Merrick Garland today if you are serious about the words you have just delivered to the American people,” Gabbard said during an appearance on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle, “Why don’t you start by investigating some of your own federal agencies, like the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA, and ask them why after one day — the very next day after I called out Kamala Harris for being a danger to our country should she be elected as president — I got added to a secret domestic terrorist list. That’s a good place to start.”

She went on to cite a case involving former FBI agent Steve Friend, who was doxxed after he “blew the whistle on how the FBI is essentially being used as the Democrats’ personal partisan police force.”

“And then obviously, you talked about the examples with President Trump that are too many to cite, but that have been made very clear to the American people and those paying attention with any objectivity that this is lawfare,” the former Democrat said.

“Those who are in power, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, are weaponizing and politicizing the Department of Justice and law enforcement agencies, both at the federal level and the state level, to take out their political opponent, the greatest threat to their power, in a way that has never been done before in our country’s history. That’s where [Garland] should start,” Gabbard added.

Garland’s remarks fly in the face of reality, essentially equating to an in-your-face example of projecting while claiming DOJ agents, including the FBI, “are doing what is right and upholding the rule of law.”

“The way you do that work makes clear that the public servants of the Department of Justice do not bend to politics. And that they will not break under pressure,” he said.

The attorney general had the audacity to claim that everyone is equal under the law — in effect, telling Americans not to believe their lying eyes when it comes to how Hunter Biden has been treated, or how Antifa terrorists are treated compared to January 6 protestors.

“There is not one rule for friends and another for foes,” Garland claimed. “One rule for the powerful and another for the powerless, one rule for the rich and another for the poor, one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans, or different rules depending on one’s race or ethnicity. To the contrary, we have only one rule: We follow the facts and apply the law in a way that respects the Constitution and protects civil liberties.”

Garland is entitled to his opinion, but it runs counter to the lack of trust Americans have in the DOJ and FBI, as seen in numerous polls.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story supporting that distrust, as seen on X:

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