On Nicole Wallace right now: Garland, Wray, prevented FBI, DOJ from investigating Trump

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9. I thought the Justice Department and FBI

weren't supposed to investigate based on "how it would play politically." One of the defenses of Garland's lack of action on this was that "he didn't want the investigation to be seen as political." Well, that can't be worked out both ways.

But they went after the "foot soldiers." Who do they think prompted those pitifully ignorant people into action? Many of them risked their careers and lost all credibility for this, and that didn't happen in a vacuum.

Wallace says that the only reason the DOJ has moved forward is public pressure. Good. That's the way democracy works. A lot of people have questioned the way this has been handled, and that's not an attack on Garland, but it's expecting reasonable accountability. We deserve tthat, in fact, as Americans, and especially Democrats who voted to put in office the President who appointed the AG, we are entitled to it. If the possibility exists that Trump could have already been prosecuted and put away by now, then we need to be able to have an opinion of that based on what we know.