The Washington Post published an embarrassing article in the wake of the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, placing blame on Attorney General Merrick Garland for allegedly politicizing the Department of Justice by executing a lawful search warrant. The article validated right-wing conceits that Trump should effectively be placed beyond any legal accountability, lest the Justice Department be accused of becoming “politicized.”
The obvious fact that allowing a political figure to escape legal accountability would itself be a political decision, however, is being given a back seat (if any consideration at all).
The article from Washington Post Justice Department reporter Perry Stein was originally emblazoned with the absurd headline, “Garland vowed to depoliticize Justice. Then the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago.” The article began by holding Garland to a virtually impossible standard, claiming that supporters had said he “would try to convince the public and lawmakers that he was an apolitical attorney general,” which was now contrasted with the supposedly “highly unusual court-approved search Monday.” (Presumably in response to intense criticism on social media, the Post has quietly updated the headline to a far more anodyne version, “FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago lands Merrick Garland in a political firestorm.”)
The article included Trump’s false claim that the court-approved search represented the “weaponization of the Justice System,” followed in the...
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