The picture of a hesitant Justice Department runs contrary to the GOP allegation that the indictments of Trump were the product of a Democrat-led plot.

Acting on a mix of principle and caution, Justice Department officials under former President Joe Biden made a series of decisions that significantly delayed and ultimately may have hampered the federal criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, according to a new book.

The slow decision-making at the top of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department affected two major probes into Trump after he lost the White House in 2020: whether he illegally possessed and obstructed the retrieval of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, and whether he conspired illegally to overturn the 2020 election.

  • sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    If you come at the King, you best not miss.

    Biden’s DOJ could have not investigated Trump and let him retire to Mar A Lago in obscurity.

    Or they could have effectively investigated Trump and either convicted him or lost the case years before the 2024 elections began.

    But the DOJ were cowards. They feared to prosecute Trump for political reasons, but they were also afraid to tell Biden they wouldn’t prosecute Trump. So they hemmed and hawed and hid their cowardice behind the veil of principle.

    And they gave themselves the worst of both worlds. They made themselves look corrupt and compromised by politics without actually accomplishing anything. They chased Trump for four years and gave him nothing but free publicity in the process.

    It amazes me, over and over, how blessed Trump has been by the incompetence of his enemies. Everything he is and everything he has was handed to him by the Democrats.