Attorney General Merrick Garland proved himself not sufficiently competent for the role of the nation’s highest ranking law enforcement officer throughout his House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, the panel on “fox-news-flash” target=”_blank”>The Five<“, host fox-news-flash” target=”_blank”>Greg Gutfeld<
Host Jesse Watters echoed Gutfeld, but went on to blame President Obama for Garland’s prominence. He noted Garland became a political celebrity on the left once Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., essentially blocked him from nomination proceedings for the U.S. Supreme Court, citing congressional precedent.
“Who do I blame Garland for? Obama,” Watters said. “He was the one that brings Garland to the conversation… It turns out he’s not moderate: not even competent. You can write a letter to the AG and they can activate the FBI?”
“Oh, there were articles in the letter that they linked to. I read some articles. He got a letter from a liberal and read some fake news and that’s how you get an active FBI investigation?”
Watters added that Garland didn’t appear to know the specifics of the Loudoun County, Va., case at the center of the school board controversy.
Later, co-host Harold Ford Jr., a former Democratic congressman from Memphis, added that he has seen cases in his own home state where Garland’s memo may be helpful, reporting that medical experts called to a school board meeting about COVID-19 mitigation near Murfreesboro, Tenn. were threatened and harassed following the forum.
