Attorney General Garland who is appointed by Joe Biden and serves at Joe Biden’s pleasure delivered a speech.
“You have to consider the attorney general of the United States is and has always been a political office. Even though theoretically he heads up the justice department and the justice department should be non-partisan,” said David Shestokas, an IL attorney general candidate. “Given the very nature of the mechanics of how the head of the justice department gets the job it’s going to wind up with a sort of a political tinge to it. If you think about the fact that John Kennedy made his brother attorney general, that kind of tells you all you need to know about that job.”
Shestokas said the speech given by Garland was for purely political purposes.
“What he’s not saying of course is in terms of the security there [capitol], ultimately the chief of the capitol police reports to the speaker of the house. In terms of the failings of the security there, the failings turn out to be the Chief of the capitol police and the Speaker of the House, [Nancy Pelosi]” said Shestokas.
Shestokas said they are investigating everyone else to distract from the fact that in fact it was Nancy Pelsoi’s failing that allowed this. Over 700 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far…but no one was charged with terrorism or insurrection. One unarmed Trump supporter died at the scene on Jan. 6. Others died “in relation to the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally” from heart attacks and there was one overdose. Ashli Babbitt, 35, of San Diego and an Air Force veteran, died on the day of the riot after being shot in the shoulder by a Capitol Police officer.
Now some law enforcement lost their lives “in relation to the rally,” there was one officer who had a stroke after he had returned to his division. Four other police officers committed suicide in the days and months after the riot.
“This is the most secure building in the world and a ragtag group of unarmed people were able to breach these barriers. It’s kind of suspicious. Turning down the assistance of the National Guard that president Trump had offered seems to call into question everything about that. Jan. 6 is actually a strange thing,” said Shestokas.
Shestokas was in Georgia working on the senate run off campaigns.
“On the evening of Jan. 5 Georgia Senator David Perdue was down by 3/10s of a point. There’s an automatic recount if you are at 5/10ths or less. Strangely enough while everybody was watching Washington D.C. and paying attention there,” said Shestokas. “Myself and another attorney who were monitoring things in Clay County and other folks around Georgia, around the Atlanta area had been going to watch the process of the ballots and watching the signature verifications. We were allowed to be doing the same thing on Jan. 6 in Georgia for ballots that came in before the close of the polls on Jan. 5. We were locked out of the places that are finishing the ballot counts.”
They locked the doors in Georgia.
Shestokas said nobody knows about any of this except for those that were in Georgia, because everyone was paying attention to what was going on in Washington. Shestokas said all eyes got diverted from what was happening in Georgia.
“During the course of that day, Senator Purdue’s 3/10s of a point benign behind somehow bloomed into 8/10ths of being behind. Senator Perdue did not get the automatic recount according to Georgia law. This all happened with the doors locked behind closed doors with nobody being able to take a look at what’s going on and everybody paying attention to Washington D.C. I would contend today Jan. 6th they are still trying to make sure nobody takes a look at Georgia,” said Shestokas.
The Georgia election was on Jan. 5th, that was election day and Shestokas and a team of attorneys had been monitoring for about ten days during the early voting period.
“On Jan. the 6 we were locked out of monitoring the bell of processing of what was going on in Georgia. Nobody was paying attention to this, because of course everybody was watching the guy with horns on his head running around the capitol building,” said Shestokas. “In terms of tin foil hats and wondering… I can only tell you my personal experience and it seems like they wanted nobody watching Georgia while all this was going on.”
