Prominent Fmr Federal Prosecutor Torches Garland
Attorney General isn’t “doing his damn job,” Kirschner says
A former career federal prosecutor known for his rational legal analysis turned a blowtorch on Merrick Garland Friday, accusing the attorney general of not “doing his damn job” because he hasn't yet indicted Donald Trump for the myriad crimes that the former president stands accused of — including those related to the deadly insurrection and attempted coup on January 6, 2021.
Trump remains at large, despite Garland having “probable cause on steroids for Donald Trump, for crime after crime, after crime after crime,” Glenn Kirschner told SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah.
On Friday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, the host asked Kirschner how frustrated he is at “paralysis” in the Justice Department in the face of mounting evidence being uncovered by the House select committee investigating the events surrounding the insurrection of January 6. Kirschner — who is retired from the Justice Department and serves as both a legal analyst for MSNBC and host of his own popular legal YouTube channel — expressed a high level of frustration.
“It's beyond frustrating,” he said.
Kirschner recalled his own experience working on many what he called “covert investigations,” investigations where there were no arrests, and prosecutors were using a grand jury to build towards an indictment.
“And at the moment, Dean, that I realized my covert investigation — my covert, grand jury investigation — had enough evidence to satisfy the probable cause standard, which is the standard to both indict someone and to apply for an arrest warrant, every minute of every day I had a decision to make. Am I doing public safety a disservice by failing to arrest this person right now? And nine times out of 10, Dean, I was driven by my concern for public safety.
“You know what? If I left a bad guy out on the street knowing I had probable cause that I had developed in my grand jury investigation, but I wanted to make my case a little stronger, a little more perfect, a little prettier, a little more bulletproof, and that person hurts someone in the community, that's on me because I didn't do my damn job,” Kirschner said. “And, right now, I feel like Merrick Garland is not doing his damn job because he has probable cause on steroids for Donald Trump, for crime after crime, after crime after crime.
“And he leaves [Trump] out holding rallies and continuing to push the Big Lie on people, he's continuing to radicalize people and endanger their lives — and endanger the health of our democracy — when we have probable cause, plus, plus, plus, to put a stop to it? This is what I can't abide; this is what keeps me up at night.”
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