Opinion: The Jan. 6 committee forced Merrick Garland to take on Donald Trump, writes former DOJ prosecutor Ankush Khardori
that was filed late last week for allegedly mishandling sensitive government documents and obstructing the federal investigation.
Republicans and Trump supporters on Capitol Hill and in the conservative media have certainly spent much of the last year laying the groundwork for the tendentious narrative of a “weaponized” DOJ — literally going back to the day that, before any of them could possibly have known what was going on in that case.
But the notion that Biden or Garland was somehow determined to prosecute Trump relies on a serious distortion of the public record. Indeed, that record vexed some observers, including me, who repeatedly expressed frustration over how the two men seemed to be going out of their way for most of the first two years of the administration toSpecial Counsel Jack Smith makes a statement to the press in Washington, D.C., Aug.
The best explanation at the moment — the one that most neatly fits the available facts and a robust body of credible reporting — is that the work of the Jan. 6 select committee spurred the Justice Department to action. The committee’s investigation uncovered new and important information that was impossible to ignore, and their hearings last summer generated intense and legitimate political and public pressure on DOJ and Garland. Ultimately, it appears that they no longer had a choice but to shift course and embark on the path that led to today’s indictment, arguably the most serious yet facing Trump.the siege of the U.S. Capitol occurred on Jan.
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