Merrick Garland . . . .

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14. huge, if true

...is not.

No matter, I guess, to critics that neither a conviction or charges keeps anyone from running or assuming office, even in jail..

But, I'm not seeing how Garland was supposed to bring charges early in his term based on, what, news reports and twitter posts? How would that piffle of a legal strategy get by this maga majority n the Supreme Court?

How do you convince grand juries, which the federal system relies on to bring charges forward, to recommend charges without the testimony and evidence that came in AFTER appeals were successfully fought by Garland's prosecutors in appeals courts hearings which were delayed for months and months?

Close aides and attorneys had their attorney client privileges stripped on the evidence GARLAND'S team argued before the judges, much of it overlapping his appointment of Smith.

The same host of close Trump WH attorney's and aides who are KEY WITNESSES in his indictments. Material seized in 2021 wasn't available until those appeals were completed successfully by Garland's team. Guiliani's phone, for instance, wasn't unlocked for YEARS after it was seized by the FBI. Jeffery Clark's, Jenna Ellis', John Eastman's.

People who claim Garland wasn't investigating the Trump WH early in his term have been proven wrong so many times... the 'Garland late' Garland slow walked refrain hasn't a shred of truth.

More than that, you really have to question the legal judgment of the claim Garland could just whip up a prosecution from the newspaper or twitter and put Trump in jail, tout de suite, as we watch the charges GRAND JURIES recommended after THEY took THEIR time deciding being just shredded and delayed further by the courts.

This construction of 'Garland late' of Garland indifferent' or any of the other ---- used to bash the DOJ which tasked Tom Windom to investigate the Trump WH in the fall of 2021, and hired Jack Smith to accelerate and deepen an already 'fast-moving investigation,' is an old and disproven trope.

receipts:




https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel-high-profile-moves-trump-criminal-investigations/index.html


https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel-high-profile-moves-trump-criminal-investigations/index.html


Smith started with more evidence than what Mueller started with, and integrated into a fast moving investigation including a year long financial probe which had flown under the radar.

Took over a staff twice the size of Muellers, some 20 prosecutors.