He's just taking after Eric Holder.
Oh please. Without the jacked up histrionics of the NRA and their pressure on a beholden Congress, all that would have come of the
Fast and Furious debacle would have been the considered assessment (which was in fact made) that such an operation carried too many lethal risks and did not yield enough insight into high level gun trafficking criminals anyway. Painful lessons, painful loss of human life.
But to compare the loss of life there and the lost 1400 of 2000 guns --floating into the ether of potential criminal activity-- to the misery and daily loss of life around the USA from inappropriate use of either illegally acquired or carelessly stored weapons, well... hard pass there from me.
Same hard pass to the idea of comparing Trump and Holder over their respective run-ins with Congress.
Donald Trump's net damage to the fabric of American society exceeded that of any ill advised move by Eric Holder, even by the time Trump got done with the hat-in-ring speech he made at the bottom of that escalator when announcing his quest for the 2016 GOP nomination.
Perhaps no one could have foretold Trump's incitement of a violent disruption of the 1/6/21 proceedings related to transition of power to Joe Biden. But neither could anyone have been shocked by then to have seen that Trump held the spirit and much of the letter of our Constitution in utter contempt. He has demonstrated his total disdain for norms, guidelines, protocols, rule of law, the courts, both houses of Congress, his own agency and cabinet heads, other heads of state, the decency and humanity of entire groups of other people at home and abroad, the dignity of all those he has chosen to ridicule, threaten, override or even fire by way of social media posts.
And I have said this before, but now CNN is saying it:
The House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection long ago dropped the notion of being a narrowly focused quest for the facts as members use their probe to try to defend democracy in its intensifying struggle with Donald Trump.
www.cnn.com
Whatever CNN thinks of inflation and crime and how much of that belongs to Joe Biden, let's not imagine that Biden himself doesn't realize the truth of the old saw "the buck stops here." Doesn't mean that Biden is solely responsible for current states of inflation and crime, but that has never stopped midterm voters from casting aspersions on whichever administration holds power.
C'est la vie.
All presidents live with the risk that the opposition will sell in the idea of
restraining the executive branch by flipping the House at midterm.
It's just ironic in the extreme that here we have a GOP trying to pitch flipping Congress red in 2022, just so that they can resume their project of turning Congress into a circus hoping to impeach and remove Biden because [no reason] ...and then making themselves toothless after
helping install a president for life in the person of Donald John Trump in 2024. I don't know why they want to experience totalitarian government, but there it is, and God forbid it should come to pass.
I hope Garland indicts that scofflaw Trump and he eventually faces a jury that still knows truth from a lie.
