In 1995, a right-wing extremist named Timothy McVeigh killed 168 innocent men, women

[Atticus]

and children by parking a rental truck filled with explosives in front of the Alfred P. Murrah center in Oklahoma City and detonating it.

McVeigh was prosecuted and convicted by a quiet, thorough, intelligent and methodical prosecutor named Merrick Garland and, in due course, was executed at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Between 2017 and 2021, a right-wing extremist named Donald Trump, due to his unprecedented mendacity and disinterested malfeasance as President of the United States, was responsible for an estimated 140,000 unnecessary and preventable covid deaths.

Trump is now the subject of a criminal investigation initiated by a quiet, thorough, intelligent and methodical US Attorney General named Merrick Garland.

Stay tuned.

[druidity33]

1. Might be this isn't Garland...

could be Wray and the FBI. Garland wouldn't even need to approve the raid. Not his department.

[Atticus]

3. Wray is directly answerable to Garland, his superior. I cannot see him doing what he just did

without getting the nod from the AG.

[Ohio Joe]

5. A memo leaked a few weeks ago said...

Sensitive investigations must be run by him:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22089098-attorney-general-memorandum-election-year-sensitivities

He gave his approval of the action.

[Initech]

2. Oklahoma City should have been the death knell for the Rush Limbaugh show.

But it wasn't and the cancer of his extremism was allowed to spread and mutate. It's going to take a lot to stop the US from going full extremist but I feel like we can do it!

[Solomon]

4. Trump is responsible for a lot more than 140,000_deaths.

[Demovictory9]

6. I didn't know the connection. Thx

[Demovictory9]

7. I didn't know the connection. Thx

[BannonsLiver]

8. It was actually Joseph Hartzler who was the lead prosecutor

Garland’s role is outlined in this WaPo story. He played an important role but it would be inaccurate to call him the “prosecutor”. It was a team effort.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/merrick-garland-oklahoma-city-bombing/2021/02/19/a9e6adde-67f2-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html

Garland, then a top Justice Department official, was encouraging prosecutors to speed the trial along and jettison superfluous findings in their case against Timothy McVeigh, who was convicted of carrying out the 1995 attack and executed in 2001, said Joe Hartzler, the team’s lead attorney. Hartzler said he found the advice so compelling that he wrote the words on a sheet of paper and hung it on an office wall as a rallying cry for his team.