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In reply to the discussion: True or False: The prosecution of Donald Trump would unite Republicans in the next election? [View all]Azathoth
(4,677 posts)The wheels of justice are slow, but they're not that slow. This isn't a decades-long mafia investigation involving hundreds of wiretap applications and handling of long-term informants etc.
If the AG had gone in and said "If we have the evidence, we go with it," there would have been action by now, or at least a team of prosecutors with a case in its final stages.We know who the players are here, and we know generally what the evidence is. We've already prosecuted dozens of insurrectionists.
Slow-walking a case like this is essentially a strategy for killing it. Public memory is short, political will evaporates, and what are you going to do, hold a jury trial for a guy who is three months away from possibly winning the presidency? (Or worse, a guy who has already re-won the presidency? We know his lawyers would delay any trial for years.)