
Media Gloats Over Trump Indictment—Ignoring Dangers, Blinken Rejects Australia Demands to #FreeAssange, & Worst Pro-Iraq War Journalist Promoted (Again), w/ Michael Tracey | SYSTEM UPDATE #123
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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The Biden Justice Department Is Doing the Same Thing as the Trump Justice Department
The New York Times in March of this year and then also the previous year 2022 in April had reported that by strange coincidence the private musings that Biden had told told his inner circle that he really wanted Trump charged for January 6. Those quote private comments ended up making their way to the New York Times and fueled this kind of drumbeat of pressure on Merrick Garland to adhere to this political prerogative. So it's just funny because you have to like take into the archives and unearth this stuff because you know if you don't just see it at the moment I mean nobody even bats an eye and thinks that oh maybe this could constitute undue influence.
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