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In reply to the discussion: This international criminal web is huge. Merrick Garland and "The Octopus" [View all]bigtree
(94,649 posts)...where VOTERS shut the prosecution (who was already in court when we voted), enabled by myriad courts, including the Supreme Court which invented immunities after waiting until just before we voted to rule and allow the case to proceed.
Anyone claiming there could have been a faster prosecution on lesser charges is just talking smack; making specious claims, given that a basically airtight set of charges was derailed by the maga majority just making shit up; making law from the bench.
Hell, they didn't even make a definitive ruling on the case, just strung it out there to see what else they could lop off to save Trump from trial or conviction.
And what's really fucked up is that the Garland DOJ prosecutors aren't in power right now; the fucking Supreme Court that critics of Garland refuse to even mention ARE STILL SITTING THERE, and Garland critics who think bashing an out of power AG, along with the Trump WH, FBI, and DOJ bashing the out of power AG, STILL can't bother to even talk about their complicity, much less confront them in any material or organized way.
Hell, the only thing some of the same critics have managed to do is the same bashing of Democrats out of power, as if they're afraid to actually confront the actual people who delayed the trials; dropped the charges; obstructed the justice critics obligingly divert from.
When the hell are Garland critics going to get around to defending those prosecutions and charges? I get that might be awkward, claiming they didn't happen and all.
Where's the credibility in insisting that 17 months isn't enough time to hold a trial? Why give fealty to that surrender to the myriad courts which delayed the trial?