‘Most Partisan, Most Political’: Ted Cruz Accuses AG Merrick Garland of Harboring Hatred Against Trump

Garland will go to great lengths that include indicting Hunter Biden in order to get at Donald Trump, claimed Cruz.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, on March 1, 2023. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Attorney General Merrick Garland’s dislike of Donald Trump is pushing him to indict the former president, according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), adding that federal agencies have become corrupted under Garland.

“Merrick Garland is the most partisan; he is the most political attorney general in our nation’s history. And he has corrupted the Department of Justice. He has corrupted the FBI. He has corrupted the machinery of government. And they’re perfectly willing to use it. It is effectively an arm of the DNC [Democratic National Committee]. The hypocrisy is massive,” Cruz said in an interview with Fox News on Monday. “And mark my words, I believe Merrick Garland will indict Donald Trump. He wants to indict Donald Trump because he hates Donald Trump.”

Cruz suggests that Garland is angry for not being confirmed to the Supreme Court. Former President Barack Obama had nominated Garland for the post of Supreme Court Justice. However, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Senate leader of the Republican Party, refused to take up the nomination.

Cruz pointed out that Garland’s plan may have been to indict Trump over possessing classified documents. However, he was faced with “the enormous problem that Joe Biden seemed to have classified documents everywhere, including in the garage by his old Corvette.”

As such, instead of indicting Trump over possessing classified documents, Garland will look to indict the former president for “obstruction of justice for hiding the classified documents,” Cruz said.

“Now, mind you, he’s not saying the underlying classified documents were a crime because he’d have to indict Joe Biden, too. He’s going to instead create a crime about a non-crime. That’s going to be the basis of the indictment.”

“He will also indict Hunter Biden. But he’ll do it on purely personal matters, dealing with drugs and guns and tax issues for Hunter that have nothing to do with Joe Biden because this DOJ wants to protect and insulate Joe Biden and the Biden family’s corruption. And they want to use Hunter Biden as a scapegoat to justify targeting Donald Trump,” the Republican Senator stated.

Double Standards on Classified Documents

Many lawmakers have earlier questioned the duplicity in how Trump and Biden were treated when it came to possessing classified documents.

In August last year, FBI agents had raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, with the warrant stating that there was probable cause to believe there were “additional documents that contain classified NDI [national defense information]” or “presidential records subject to record retention requirements” at the site.

At the time, Garland admitted that he had “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant” on Mar-a-Lago.

Just days before the November midterm elections, classified documents were found in the Penn Biden Center’s Washington office, just about a mile from the White House. Biden used to work at the Center before he became president. However, neither the Center nor any addresses linked to Biden were raided by agencies.

Moreover, the public was not told about the existence of classified documents at the center until January, two months after the midterms.

In an interview with The Epoch Times in January, Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, which claims to defend the rule of law, had said that the delay in informing the public is a sign of a “political cover-up.”

“There’s a clear political double standard at the Biden Justice Department, which has been politicized and weaponized against Republicans.”

The Epoch Times has reached out to the Department of Justice for comment.

Seeking Answers From Garland

The House Judiciary Committee is investigating the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, spearheaded by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

On June 6, Jordan sent a letter to Garland, asking for a breakdown and explanation of the parameters related to the investigation of Mar-a-Lago as well as what the FBI found.

In May, Trump’s attorneys wrote a letter to Garland, asking for a meeting to discuss the “ongoing injustice” being meted out against Trump.

In November 2022, Garland appointed special counsel Jack Smith to handle two investigations related to Trump—one about the former president’s handling of classified documents at the Mar-a-Lago property and a second investigation into Trump’s alleged interference with the transfer of power following the last presidential election.

“Unlike President Biden, his son Hunter, and the Biden family, President Trump is being treated unfairly. No president of the United States has ever, in the history of our country, been baselessly investigated in such an outrageous and unlawful fashion,” the letter said.