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Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the FBI following the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last week.
During a segment on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” he spoke about the raid and the agency’s conduct surrounding an alleged kidnapping plot in Michigan.
“By all accounts, Attorney General Merrick Garland was shocked to hear criticism of the raid on Mar-a-Lago last week. It turns out that Garland lives in such a tiny, airless world of left-wing activists and sycophants that it had never occurred to him that anyone might object to siccing the FBI on Joe Biden’s political opponents. When woke Twitter and ‘The New York Times’ are your only sources of news, police state politics seems perfectly normal,” Carlson began.
“‘Trump is bad! Find a reason to arrest him!’ That’s how they think. So, if you watched Garland carefully at his press conference the other day, you may have noticed that he appeared highly annoyed by the idea of having to stoop to explain himself to mere citizens. But he found a solution. Being a liberal, Merrick Garland’s first instinct was to seize the role of victim, because when you’re a victim, you’ve already won the argument. You don’t have to explain yourself. You don’t have to change your behavior. You are, by definition, the good guy. The victim always is. Being oppressed means never having to say you’re sorry,” he added.
“So, as Garland explained at the press conference, the FBI was in fact the real victim here. Mean old Fox News was asking unfair questions and that’s just wrong. So, the real problem isn’t that America’s most powerful law enforcement agency is dangerously politicized and corrupt. No, the real problem here is the people have dared to complain about it, and they must stop immediately or else they are domestic terrorists. As Garland put it, with what seemed like genuine outrage, ‘I will not stand silently by as the integrity of the FBI is unfairly attacked.’ Well, of course, media organizations loved it. There’s nothing they revere more than a victim. Victims are holy. So, they immediately took Garland side,” he said.
“‘They’re being mean to the FBI! Stop it, guys! That’s not allowed!” But if you take three steps back and think about it for a second, Garland’s position, which effectively is, ‘You’re not allowed to criticize me. I’m the attorney general of the United States,’ is pretty weird. In fact, it is an inversion of the traditional relationship between the U.S. government and the population it supposedly serves. According to Merrick Garland, the onus is on American citizens to respect the FBI. ‘Obey, it’s your duty!’ But of course, that’s not true. In a democracy, the onus is on the FBI to earn the respect of Americans. They work for you, remember? And lately they have not been doing a very good job and people know that they haven’t been,” Carlson continued.
“The public’s confidence in the FBI has plummeted by double digits in just the last few years and unfortunately, there’s a reason for that and it’s a huge problem. We need the FBI. You can’t just defund federal law enforcement. There are a lot of federal laws, most of them are silly, some of them are not silly at all. They’re very serious and they must be enforced. So, we have to have an FBI and it has to be an FBI we can trust. And we can’t trust it until its behavior merits trust, until it’s honest, and to the extent it can be transparent, consistent in the way it enforces the law. We have to have a federal law enforcement agency like that,” the Fox News host declared.
“We can’t just make it go away and hope for the best. But we’re nowhere near that point because the people who are supposed to be overseeing the FBI have ignored egregious examples of corruption over many years. But they’re getting very hard to ignore because they’re just so obvious now. And it’s not just the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Consider the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case. You may remember that story. It’s from the fall of 2020. You may even have followed it a little bit and heard how it ended,” he concluded.
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