many people are believing that Trump and his cronies will never be held accountable due to the lack of charges so far.
Compare time lines.
It has been 9 months since Trump left office. He left the country in a much worse mess than Nixon did. Biden did not get ANY transition help, but did get a LOT of obstacles thrown his way as well as hidden bombs of people that Trump appointed as internal opponents of Biden. Plus a pandemic and flailing economy. Yet, we are seeing infornation coming out as a result of investigations.
The Watergate break-in occurred during the 1972 campaign, but was quickly hushed up. I remember hearing a report of it early in the morning on the hourly radio news when it first happened. I listened most of the day for additional coverage on radio or TV, but there was nothing more. I was young and politically naive enough to think that it was such a big deal that there would be immediate repercussions, but the election and Nixon's second term moved on as if nothing had happened.
It was months before it made the news again. At first it was just a trickle of info here and there but no official investigation or follow up. Even after a Congressional committee began hearings, the attitude in general was that there was nothing very serious about it and that it surely did not involve the president. I remember people writing off the hearings as politically motivated sour grapes from Dems. Some even said, "So what if Nixon was involved? It's normal politics."
As the hearings revealed more and more information, as well as what WaPo and Deep Throat revealed, more scandals came out, e.g. AG Mitchell and his wife. People who realized where the investigation was headed but seemed to have forgotten their basic civics classes, said things like, "So why don't 'they' just fire him and get on with the business of running the country?"
It was not until August of 1974 that Nixon resigned, 2 years after the break-in. We had a Dem Congress and more liberal SC then than today, and it still took that long.
It has not even been a year yet since the J6 insurrection and since Trump left office, no longer able to protect himself from within the WH. The Dem margin of control in Congress is slim and we face numerous obstacles to investigations - refusals to testify, a Republican party in lock step opposition to every legal action.
But DOJ is investigating the crimes of Trump, his associates, and the J6 insurrectionists in spite of the obstacles and is gaining momentum in collecting evidence and witnesses. Meantime, regional jurisdictions like NY and GA are also collecting evidence and witnesses.
Complaints that DOJ is "doing nothing" are not accurate. They come from impatience with the process and sometimes sound like kids on a family road trip asking, "Are we there yet?"
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