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.
Honestly, I agree that it should have started faster…but that wasn’t “corruption” or even “incompetence”…it was caution. If they had given the appearance of bias, it would have undermined their entire case, just like how that appearance of bias is currently undermining Trump’s cases against his own enemies.
Was it maybe too much caution…yes. But only because in the end, they ran out of time. If the Supremes Court hadn’t stepped in, and forced them to re-file the charges at the last minute, Donald Trump would be in prison right now instead of the Oval office. The “corruption” in this case, wasn’t coming from the Democrats. It was coming from the Supreme Court.
But, aside from that, what Jack Smith and his team used, was good methodology. They followed every procedure to the letter, and cut no corners. Those cases were airtight. As opposed to Trump’s rushed indictments, that are falling apart in court. There is a right way and a wrong way to do this…and it has nothing to do with anyone’s “opinion” about who the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are. That is decided by the evidence.