Bill Maher ripped âAttorney Genialâ Merrick Garland a new one during Friday nightâs episode of Real Time with Bill Maher for allowing Donald Trump to continually skirt federal prosecution for his alleged crimes.
âAnd finally, new rule: At the top levels of our federal government, giving a guy a job because he got screwed over for another job, isnât a good reason to give a guy a job. Especially if the job is Attorney General. And especially if itâs during a time when we need a tough AG to catch a real criminal.â
Maher was of course talking about Attorney General Garland, âwho, spoiler alert, sucks,â according to the talk show host. But Maher didnât just turn his ire on Garland who he dubbed âAttorney General Barney Fife,â but on the Democrats who appointed him.
âThey worry so much about appearing non-partisan they get behind someone who lets actual crimes go unpunished,â he said. Garland was the result of Democrats, who consistently appoint a Republican to the attorney general seat, caring too much about âopticsâ Maher said.
Maher compared Garland to Robert Mueller, who he said failed to bring Trump to justice for colluding with Russia. âBut with Mueller as with Garland now, when we needed a pit bull, we got a purse dog,â he said.
The host explained that Garland was the reason for the former presidentâs ongoing hush-money case, which he argued should actually be a federal election interference case.
âSo, tell me, how can the fixer who delivers the hush money be guilty of election interference but the candidate who orders it, pays it, conceals it, not be?â Maher asked, arguing that Trump is clearly guilty of the same crimes to which Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018.
âTrump whines heâs the victim of âselective prosecution,â the truth is heâs the beneficiary of selective non-prosecution,â Maher said, arguing that Trump should have been charged with breaking campaign finance laws, instead of duking it out in state court on charges of falsifying business records.
The same thing happened with Trumpâs classified documents case, Maher argued. âBy bending over backwards to be fair to the Republican, the Democrat got fucked,â he said.
Garland waited six months to send the FBI to Mar-a-Lago to follow up on Trumpâs classified documents case, Maher said, and took 20 months to assign a special prosecutor to investigate.
At the same time the AG leapt to assign a Trump-appointed special counsel to investigate Joe Biden, who was fully exonerated, but smeared with an report alleging the president was âsenile, feeble, confused, shell-of-a-former-man, who poops his pants and canât remember his kidsâ names.â
Maher warned that it was happening again with Trumpâs election inference case, which has advanced at a glacial pace under Garlandâs watch.