Was Merrick Garland's Approach Correct All Along?

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21. Garland hoped it would go away

The idea being institutions wouldn't weather a presidential criminal trial well. Also, a precedent would be set. Someone that powerful could be prosecuted. That idea is unsettling to a lot of people in D.C.

As long as Trump went away, things would be slow-walked until the man was dead or no one cared.

But Trump is Trump, so he had to pull the documents business. And Trump did something categorically dumb here.

I firmly believe if Trump wasn't running for President, very little would move forward. However, the document case panicked him, so he decided to run for President. In this, Garland's hand was finally forced. Enter Jack Smith. "Welp, now we have no choice."

And it has elements of a tragedy and farce. Trump thought declaring a run for president would immunize him. However, that declaration is exactly what forced Garland's hand to give someone like Smith the go ahead.

I absolutely 100% believe if Trump didn't decide to run for President again, we wouldn't be watching what we are. There was a line drawn early on, "He cannot be president again." Once Trump started crossing it, the jig was up. Something had to be done.

It's a very simple and very Washington explanation for the behaviors I've seen over the past two and a half years.