Politics is often pathetic, but there's still a good deal of pettiness in making Attorney General Garland take the fall for Special Counsel Hur's report in which he described Biden's serious memory problems.
Joe Biden has told aides and outside advisers that Attorney General Merrick Garland did not do enough to rein in a special counsel report stating that the president had diminished mental faculties, according to two people close to the president, as White House frustration with the head of the Justice Department grows.
While Biden himself has not weighed in on Garland's future, most of the president's senior advisers do not believe that the attorney general would remain in his post for a possible second term, according to the two people.
Last year, Biden privately denounced how long the probe into his son was taking, telling aides and outside allies that he believed the stress could send Hunter Biden spiraling back into addiction, according to the same two people.
The elder Biden, the people said, told those confidants that Garland should not have eventually empowered a special counsel to look into his son, believing that he again was caving to outside pressure.
In recent weeks, President Biden has grumbled to aides and advisers that had Garland moved sooner in his investigation into former President Donald Trump's election interference, a trial may already be underway or even have concluded, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss private matters.
Biden isn't angry at AG Garland because crime is high or some other general policy issue but because;
1. AG Garland didn’t move fast enough to prosecute his opponent
2. AG Garland didn’t protect his son from a special counsel investigation
3. AG Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate him
The media is reporting this stuff as it were routine politics when if a Republican, especially one named Trump, were doing this, it would be absolutely grounds for impeachment.
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