Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Donald Trump for possible crimes in connection (a) with Jan. 6, and (b) with regard to documents retained and taken to Mar-A-Lago. His stated rationale is that Trump’s announcement of a run for the presidency in 2024 and Biden’s stated intentions to run again mean the DOJ - which reports to Biden - has a conflict of interest in prosecuting the former president in the normal, in-house way.
If he is correct, then how is it that the DOJ doesn’t have a conflict of interest in deciding in-house not to prosecute Hunter Biden, and by implication Joe Biden, for the Biden family influence peddling schemes and scams? Isn’t a special prosecutor equally justified by conflict of interest in the Biden family corruption matter?
This looks like Merrick Garland getting even with Trump and McConnell for not being confirmed as a Supreme Court justice in the last days of the Obama administration. It isn’t a good look, either. Some of the above reflects comments made by law prof Jonathan Turley yesterday on Bret Baier’s Special Report for Fox News.
