Exclusive: DOJ mulling potential special counsel if Trump runs in 2024

[kpete]

As Donald Trump inches closer to launching another presidential run after the midterm election, Justice Department officials have discussed whether a Trump candidacy would create the need for a special counsel to oversee two sprawling federal investigations related to the former president, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

The Justice Department is also staffing up its investigations with experienced prosecutors so it’s ready for any decisions after the midterms, including the potential unprecedented move of indicting a former president.

In the weeks leading up to the election, the Justice Department has observed the traditional quiet period of not making any overt moves that may have political consequences. But behind the scenes, investigators have remained busy, using aggressive grand jury subpoenas and secret court battles to compel testimony from witnesses in both the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his alleged mishandling of national security documents kept at his Palm Beach home.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/politics/doj-trump-investigation-expansion-special-counsel/index.html

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[sop]

1. I suspect Trump will claim he secretly pardoned himself as soon as the indictments start flying.

[Hotler]

2. We've had 24-months of not making any overt moves that may have political consequences.

(code for not wanting to hurt repug feelings.) Didn't things get all political on 1/6, and didn't they start it? why are we walking on egg shells? I give up.

[tableturner]

5. Because we are CHICKEN!

[Girard442]

3. Great! Then the new special prosecutor can fiddlyfart around until 2025...

...when a newly re-elected Trump fires him/her and burns the the whole operation to the ground.

[tableturner]

7. You are correct, sir or ma'am!

[reymega life]

9. the FBI will do a second mueller council probably hosted by Comey

on a new council

[republianmushroom]

4. Why he should be in jail by then. Where is the DoJ / Just asking.

[Fullduplexxx]

6. I no longer care what the doj says

[msfiddlestix]

8. jeeze, the situation at the DOJ must be far worse than I imagined.

I'm not watching the returns, I'll read about it online in the following days which will probably seem like years.

And now it looks like I'm going to have to finally fully accept what I just can't change, and have no control over, regarding our justice system.

I might have to accept it, but I don't have to embrace it.

[SledDriver]

10. Oh great! Another Robert Mueller!

[triron]

11. WTF!

[sop]

12. I hear Liz Cheney's looking for a new job.