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In reply to the discussion: Can't agree with what Garland did [View all]Caliman73
(11,767 posts)Garland is not trying to convince the people who are attacking him. As I said in a thread I started, the people attacking Garland (Trump and supporters) are NOT operating in good faith. They are doing what people often do with government agencies that are typically bound to respect confidentiality. They can attack and smear agencies and the agency cannot really do much to defend itself because sharing information would violate privacy, or put investigations at risk, etc...
As Garland said, DOJ does it's "talking" with legal actions in court. The problem with that is we have an insanely corrupt former politician who has a whole media system backing him, and an entire political party willing to further his corrupt aims Trump and the GOP have been successful at framing the narrative. Garland requesting the unseal the warrant puts Trump in a position where he either has to OBJECT to what he specifically was asking for and complaining about, and look like a complete hypocrite to all but his brain dead followers; OR the warrant is unsealed and everyone interested finds out the process by which the DOJ had their suspicions and what they were looking for. Either way, they will find NO political motivations for the search, simply a boring process. They ONLY way Trump keeps his charade going is if he objects, then continues to whine about "lack of transparency", then it is up to the Democratic Party to shout him down and point out to everyone listening that transparency was his for the asking but he BLOCKED it.
The thing about this situation should actually be that it doesn't matter if this was a Democratic or Republican politician doing this, the process would be the SAME. Thing is, Democratic politicians do not lie, steal stuff, and stonewall like Republicans do. We believe in the law and try to follow it as best we can. That is the difference. This is typically UNNECESSARY with Democrats.