Biden cleaning up Garlands mess.

[ShazzieB]

36. I was wrong, too.

To be honest, I don't think I really defended Garland so much as arguing for patience and pointing out that none of us really had any way of knowing what was going on behind the scenes at the DOJ. And I quit even doing that a while back.

I still think some people were awfully quick to start dumping on Garland back when he had only been in office for a few months, but subsequent events have done little to justify the hopes I had in him at the time.

The one thing he did that I approve of was appointing Jack Smith, but he waited way too damned long to do that. If Smith had had enough time, I think he could have done a good job of prosecuting the Orange Hellbeast, but he didn't get a fair shot.

Anyway, I definitely don't plan on defending Garland again, not based on what we know now, and I agree that Biden never should have appointed him.