Tucker: Biden’s DOJ Wants ‘To Terrify, Humiliate And Destroy People Who Pray’

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson accused US Attorney General Merrick Garland of weaponizing the Department of Justice “to terrify, humiliate and destroy people who pray in public.”

Carlson said Thursday that the DOJ is targeting “anyone who is religious, humiliating them in front of their children,” referencing the case of Mark Houck, a pro-life father who had his house raided by the FBI after he allegedly violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

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Tucker: Merrick Garland's DOJ wants to "terrify, humiliate and destroy people who pray in public." pic.twitter.com/EGYIdVIMkg

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Houck got into an altercation with a 72-year-old man after the elderly man began verbally harassing Houck’s 12-year-old son outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia.

Houck was found not guilty and acquitted of all charges in late January. Carlson suggested the DOJ is targeting religious Americans because “people raised to believe that God is in charge are much harder for the government to control as they grow up.”

“Are you allowed to believe that there’s an authority higher than the people in charge of your government? That has always been the hallmark of America: religious liberty. It’s in the First Amendment,” the Fox News host questioned.

Carlson accused Garland of leading the “most aggressive attack on civil liberties” and “Christianity than any living American has seen.”

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.@TuckerCarlson: "Merrick Garland has presided over the most aggressive attack on civil liberties…and…Christianity than any living American has seen." pic.twitter.com/wgfXHrl2Xa

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 3, 2023

On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) launched similar accusations at the DOJ and Merrick Garland. Hawley asked if the DOJ possessed an “anti-Catholic bias,” referencing a leaked FBI internal memorandum that called for “the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development against traditionalist Catholics.”

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) takes AG Merrick Garland to task on targeting Catholics

“The FBI field office in Richmond, VA on January 23rd, issued a memo where they advocated for and I quote ‘New avenues for trip-wire and source development against Traditionalist Catholics,… pic.twitter.com/AboVkaKblM

— Mariana (@texas_walnut) March 1, 2023

The memo, dated Jan. 23, called for FBI agents to infiltrate traditional Catholic communities to stop any alleged threat of “white supremacy” within the religious group. The Richmond FBI office where the report came from supposedly “assesses the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development.”

The memorandum claimed their was a link between traditionalist Catholics and “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.” Following mass backlash over the memorandum, the FBI released a statement disavowing the memorandum’s content, saying it “does not meet the exacting standrds of the FBI.”

“Upon learning of the document, FBI Headquarters quickly began taking action to remove the document from FBI systems and conduct a review of the basis for the document,” the FBI told the Washington Examiner.