The resurfacing of a damning report alleges that President Joe Biden exerted pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue legal action against former President Donald Trump. Originally published by The New York Times on April 02, 2022, the report has gained renewed attention on X, formerly known as Twitter, due to the increasing number of legal cases against the previous administration.
“The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself,” New York Times reporters Katie Benner, Katie Rogers, and Michael S. Schmidt said. “As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments.”
“And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6,” it said.
In the wake of the story’s publication, four prosecutors have brought forth 91 charges against the ex-president, potentially subjecting him to a staggering 717.5 years of imprisonment. Recently, a journalist inquired the president about his stance on whether Trump could be deemed an insurrectionist.
“Is Trump an insurrectionist, sir?” the reporter said.
“I think … it’s self-evident,” the president said. “Whether the Fourteenth Amendment applies, we’ll let the Court make that decision.”
“But he certainly supported an insurrection,” the president said, though the former president has never been charged with insurrection. “No question about it. None. Zero.”
The banishment of former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado, as ruled by the state’s Supreme Court, has raised concerns for Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House and Fox News contributor. During his appearance on the Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle,” Gingrich expressed his belief that this decision could have dire consequences not only for the upcoming 2024 election but also for the overall future of elections in the United States.
“I think this is potentially catastrophic,” he said. “1,360,000 Coloradans voted for Donald Trump in the last election. Four lawyers want to block him from being on the ballot. That means, basically, for every 340,000 Coloradans who voted for Trump, one lawyer is stopping them. That’s a level of establishment arrogance that is not sustainable.
“The last great effort like this was the 10 states that refused to put Abraham Lincoln on the ballot in 1860,” the former Speaker said. “The American people are not going to tolerate, and I hope the Supreme Court fully understands. The American people are not going to tolerate being told that they are not allowed to have a choice for who they want to have as president.
“This is not Venezuela. It’s not Nicaragua. It’s not Cuba. I think the Democrats are dangerously close to causing the kind of confrontation that would be truly disastrous for the country,” he said in a stunning prediction before host Laura Ingraham played a clip of Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick saying that Texas could keep President Joe Biden off the 2024 ballot for how he has handled the border.
“Seeing what happened in Colorado tonight, Laura, makes me think — except we believe in democracy in Texas — maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing 8 million people to cross the border since he’s been president, disrupting our state far more than anything anyone else has done in recent history,” Patrick said in a video clip Ingraham played from her show the night before, to which Gingrich agreed.
“I mean, look at what has happened to America with this open border. That in and of itself is its own type of insurrection against sovereignty, against the rule of law. So is this not a natural reaction if this is the precedent they set?” the host said.
“Yes,” the former Speaker said. “Look, Biden’s illegal immigration policy, which leads to Biden’s illegal immigrants, is a disaster, and it’s deliberate. It’s not — there is not a failure on the border.
“There is a deliberate policy on the border to maximize the number of people who come in. The next stage will be for the left to demand that they be allowed to vote even though they are here illegally. You can see the whole process,” he said. “And that’s why we are, I think, moving dangerously close to a really genuine confrontation other than the very nature of America.”