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By Rich Lowry

Does Attorney General Merrick Gar-land know that he is investigating the man most likely to be the opponent of the president he serves?

Does he realize that the intense political pressure campaign that he’s under to indict that man has been plainly visible to everyone? Does he care?

If we can’t know where Garland is ultimately heading in his probe of Jan. 6 and the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, all indications are that he is preparing the ground for an indictment of Donald J. Trump.

The former president is inflammatory and mendacious as a matter of course, but in this...