Another Shout Out To Merrick Garland [View all]
One of the best AG's ever.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-top-biden-white-house-official-blames-merrick-garland-for-failure-to-look-into-the-epstein-files-he-was-hypersensitive/ar-AA1JfzK3?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6882f2d23f67401cbdbf12947118cce8&ei=30
“Any time I say anything about Epstein, they’re like, ‘Why didn’t Joe Biden’s — why didn’t Joe Biden release the files?’ And this is what I say: Have you met Merrick Garland?” Tanden responded.
Neera Tanden was a senior advisor to President Biden.
“[T]he Joe Biden White House had nothing to do with enforcement on any topic,” she continued, charging that “because of the abuses of the Trump administration, the White House didn’t engage in any particular enforcement matter.”
“We barely did engage on policy with the Department of Justice. They were so arms-length to us.”
Tanden claimed the Biden White House had “no idea” what — if anything — Garland was doing related to the Epstein files, but that she believes the former attorney general couldn’t tolerate being potentially viewed as biased if he were to open more criminal cases related to Epstein’s underage sex trafficking endeavors.
Neera Tanden said she believes Garland may have been “hypersensitive” to potential political blowback related to the Epstein case.
“I can’t really tell you why Merrick Garland didn’t do it. I would say that he was hypersensitive about any perceptions of unfairness to a point where I think, you know, I’m not sure justice was always even done,” Tanden said.
“And I can imagine he thought, you know, after he’s doing [Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases] and all the conservative blowback on that — maybe he wouldn’t even look into Ghislaine Maxwell — but someone should ask him,” she added.
“I wish he had looked into it.”
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