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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump
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Merrick Garland channels SNL's sleazy lawyer Nathan Thurm in his 60 Minutes appearance (watch)
Twitchy readers lucky enough to call themselves Generation X (or older) might recall a classic Saturday Night Live character, Nathan Thurm. Thurm was a sleazy, corrupt lawyer played by Martin Short. He always appeared nervous, sweaty, and accompanied by a quivering cigarette when being grilled by Harry Shearer's Mike Wallace on SNL's spoof of 60 Minutes.


Current U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland seems to have been inspired by Thurm's legendary weaseling when he took to 60 Minutes Sunday night for an interview with Scott Pelley (who is no Mike Wallace; not even Harry Shearer). Garland covered any number of topics, including relating his family's history in the Holocaust to his DOJ's January 6 persecu...erm, prosecutions. Because, sure, those two things are on the same level [eyeroll].

But it was this clip that had Twitter truly in an uproar. Watch as Garland tries to pee on America's leg and call it rain by saying that his Justice Department applies the law equally to all Americans.

It's not just that Garland and the administration are lying. We know they do that. It's that they're not even trying to lie well anymore. They don't care, in part because they know that media sycophants like Scott Pelley will not push back even a little bit on a statement as glaringly false as the one Garland just made.

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