Outgoing AG Merrick Garland roasted after video of him leaving DOJ goes viral
Social media users laid into U.S.Attorney General Merrick Garland after video of him leaving the Department of Justice in celebratory fashion went viral online.A DOJ video depicted Garland exiting the department Friday to cheers and applause from department staffers and other government officials who had lined the halls to see him off.
However, critics of the attorney general gave him quite a different reception on X, formerly Twitter.“Good riddance, Merrick Garland — you pathetic hack.@PamBondi will finally restore dignity to the DOJ.
MAGA!” RNC Research wrote on X.The embattled attorney general was a regular target of conservatives and GOP leaders who called him corrupt throughout the four years of the Biden administration. Critics accused Garland of weaponizing the department against President-elect Donald Trump after the official launched an investigation into Trump’s handling of classified records that included a raid of Mar-a-Lago.Garland admitted he “personally approved” the raid.Conservatives have grilled Garland over his department’s treatment of Catholics in multiple instances — one being where GOP lawmakers accused the DOJ of refusing to “bring justice” after attacks on Catholic churches.Garland was also grilled at a congressional hearing over Catholics being allegedly targeted by the FBI.Conservatives went after the attorney general in 2021 after he directed the FBI and U.S.
attorney offices to hold meetings with federal, state and local law enforcement leaders about ways to combat what the DOJ called an “increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools” coming from parents.Prominent conservatives on X apparently had not forgotten his record in their responses to the clip. Rep.Byron Donalds, R-Fla., condemned Garland’s record, posting, “Merrick Garland has left @TheJusticeDept for the FINAL TIME.
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