Sean Hannity suggests impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland if he refuses to hand over Robert Hur interview tapes to Republicans

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Sean Hannity suggests impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland if he refuses to hand over Robert Hur interview tapes to Republicans

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From the April 17, 2024, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): The attorney general repeatedly was defending the president's cognitive fitness for office yesterday, telling Congress repeatedly that Joe Biden had no impairment despite what the Special Counsel Robert Hur cited about Biden's foggy memory.

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And now the House and these committees are now threatening that because they've been so uncooperative with Joe Biden's weaponized DOJ that they may have to hold the Attorney General of the United States in contempt of Congress. He is facing a contempt vote by House Republicans because of his outright refusal to hand over tapes of Biden's interviews with Hur.

Transcripts show apparent Biden confusion at a very high level, but yet Garland testified yesterday and argued yesterday would violate department norms to provide the actual audio, which "would likely be used by Republicans to oppose Biden's bid for a second term in a November election." Well, now we got the real reason that Merrick Garland is protecting Joe Biden at all costs, and he's not cooperating with a legal subpoena and legitimate justified oversight of Congressional committees.

So the reason they don't want the American people to hear the tapes is because they know that those tapes will be devastating to Joe Biden, likely causing him a chance at reelection. And Merrick Garland is now interfering in the election himself. Now, that would tell me that -- I know they're gonna give him one more chance, apparently, the committees, to hand over these tapes. But based on that statement, I don't see that forthcoming. Well, then their only recourse is to hold the attorney general in contempt. I would say the next step would be to impeach him.