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Speaking in New Hampshire yesterday, President Biden — remember him? — addressed the threat posed by the possible reelection of President Trump (video below): “We gotta lock him up.” Biden added that he meant “politically lock him up,” but he obviously meant “lock him up,” literally. Biden’s Department of Justice has undertaken two prosecutions of Trump charging a series of imprisonable offenses. The timing hasn’t worked out as planned, but incapacitation is the object.

Biden had commented in private settings that Trump should be prosecuted over his efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election and the related January 6 riot at the Capitol. Biden of course described Trump as a “threat to democracy.” So reported the New York Times in an April 2022 a story full of leaked Biden conversations with administration insiders.

The prosecutions followed reports of Biden’s complaint that Attorney General Merrick Garland hadn’t moved on the potential January 6 case that could be made against Trump. According to the Times, Biden had grown frustrated with Garland. Biden had described Garland as a “ponderous judge” and said he wanted to see him take more “decisive action” — you know, an indictment:

The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. As recently as late last year [i.e., 2021], Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments. And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.

Somehow, of course, Biden’s private confidences were made public courtesy of the Times’s work with Biden’s inner circle. Why, it’s almost like Biden wanted them made public in order to communicate with Garland.

Garland hopped to it. In November 2022 he appointed Krazee-Eyez Killa Jack Smith in the January 6 case as well as the classified documents case — three days after Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign. Smith produced the desired January 6 indictment on August 1 the following year.

Now the Times reports that “Biden Quickly Backtracks After Saying Trump Should Be Locked Up.” That’s ridiculous. Biden wasn’t even saying “the quiet part out loud” in New Hampshire. He was saying the loud part out loud.