Attorney General Merrick Garland is a “lamb” about to be “slaughtered” by former President Donald Trump, former National Security Adviser John Bolton said on CNN, The Daily Caller reports.
CNN’s “New Day” host John Berman asked Bolton to comment on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) objection to releasing the search warrant affidavit. Bolton said Garland is “being overwhelmed” politically but that his legal reasoning seems legit.
“I think it says there are very significant problems here for President Trump and many of his advisers, post-presidency,” Bolton said. “But I think we’ve got to distinguish between the legal battle that’s going on and the political battle. I think the Justice Department position sounds perfectly reasonable on the legal battle.”
Bolton, however, said when it comes to the political side of things, Garland is being “overwhelmed.”
“If we were in a Colosseum with two gladiators, one of them Donald Trump, the other Merrick Garland, we’d be about to witness the slaughter of the lambs. The Justice Department understandably wants to follow its normal procedures. It’s facing an adversary who couldn’t care less about the normal procedures.”
Bolton did say that the department is “not doing enough” to justify why the search warrant on Mar-a-Lago was executed. “They’ve got to do more to explain what they’re up to,” Bolton said, saying the DOJ needs to have a better PR strategy. “And they’ve got to think of creative ways to justify it to a very skeptical public, in many respects.”
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Um Bolton go worry about the bounty on your head and keep a low profile
“Attorney General Merrick Garland is a ‘lamb’ about to be ‘slaughtered’ by former President Donald Trump, former National Security Adviser John Bolton said on CNN… Bolton said Garland is ‘being overwhelmed’ politically but that his legal reasoning seems legit.”
“With all due respect to John Bolton,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Thursday, “the only lamb that’s being slaughtered right now is the same lamb that’s been slaughtered over and over again since his Presidential inauguration, and that would be me. But I’m not even a lamb! I’m a human being, which means these guys are cannibals or, at the very least, wild animals!”
Mr. Trump went on to say: “With regards to Mr. Bolton’s assertion that Garland’s “legal reasoning seems legit,” Garland refuses to tell us exactly what he’s searching for? His legal reasoning for not telling us is because he claims we might sabotage the investigation if we know what he’s looking for. So apparently the FBI can raid anybody’s home and tell the homeowners, ‘We’ll tell you why we raided your home and seized your stuff, and what we were looking for, after we finish the investigation – in approximately 3 1/2 years from now, give or take a few years. And don’t call us, we’ll call you when we’re done. But make sure to answer your phone when we call. Good luck’.”
“You call that legal reasoning?!”
“Personally, I don’t think they know themselves what they’re looking for,” Mr. Trump said. “They’re on a political fishing expedition, hoping to snag me on something.”
“So now I’m confused, Mr. Trump said in exasperation. “I don’t know even what I am! Am I lamb? Or a fish? Or a human victim of cannibalism?! I’ve never been so confused in my life!”