...and his attorneys were still defending that evidence in court when we voted.
The disconnect here, though, is stunning considering that as Garland was not only collecting the evidence since he tasked Tom Windom to investigate the Trump WH in the Fall of 2021, but at the same time, making these arrests and prosecutions of the actual rioters that everyone, including Garland's critics, present as proof of the hypocrisy of republicans and Trump complaining about crime.
He made those prosecutions at the exact same time he was collecting evidence and defending it ALL in court against what the SC described in his report as a historically massive amount of court challenges; most of which Garland's prosecutors won after sometimes years of delays - the process slowed down, not by Garland - but by often republican and Trump appointed, nominated and approved judges and justices who delayed court hearings for months and months.
It should be obvious who is responsible for delaying the prosecutions; the same ones who delayed his trial for 14 months. Jack Smith, the SC Garland appointed on his OWN volition; the man critics initially claimed was brought in to slow the case down, brough charges with more than enough time to try and convict Trump before the election.
But we ALL saw the Supreme Court not only interfere, but delayed their decision, which forced yet another set of charges to be brought, replacing the original ones; basically showing everyone that the maga majority on the Supreme Court was NOT going to let the case come to trial, no matter when the charges were brought.
Do you really think Carol Leonning is a good reporter, because EVERY SINGLR driticism that people read in the press about Garland delaying something, or being unnecessariuly slow at something is drafted off of her bullshit article which she, herself contradicted in later reports.
People didn't even go back to confirm her gaslighting about disagreements between FBI and DOJ that she claimed caused a delay. But she NEVER accounted for the fact that:
Before Jack Smith was appointed, Merrick Garland:
Seized John Eastman's phone
Seized Jeffrey Clark's phone
Seized Scott Perry's emails
Seized Eastman's emails
Seized Epshteyn's phone
Seized Mike Lindell's phone
Seized Mike Roman's phone
Seized Scott Perry's phone
Got Kash Patel's testimony
Appointed Windom
Appointed Cooney
Subpoenaed the fraudulent electors
Subpoenaed 7 state's election officials
Subpoenaed Sidney's PAC
Subpoenaed Rudy
Opened IG probe into Clark
Opened IG probe into DoJ response to 1/6
Negotiated subpoena for Meadows
Battled the 11th circuit for classified docs
Subpoenaed trump for classified docs
Subpoenaed trump for surveillance video
Executed a search warrant on trump
Convicted Bannon of contempt
Indicted Navarro for contempt
Subpoenaed the speakers from 1/6
Subpoenaed the organizers of 1/6
Secured seditious conspiracy convictions
Subpoenaed records for any member of congress involved in 1/6
Subpoenaed info on Jenna Ellis
Secured testimony from Mark Short
Secured testimony from Jacob Engel
Secured testimony from Philbin
Secured testimony from Cippollone
Subpoenaed info on trump's PACs
Won privilege battles for Short, Engel, and the Pats
Negotiated for Pence's subpoena
Seized the phone records of Meadows
Secured the 1/6 committee transcripts
Subpoenaed 7 secretaries of state
___Smith’s report emphasized that the Justice Department was aggressively investigating leads related to Trump long before the special counsel’s tenure began. Litigation tactics by Trump and his allies, Smith argued, were the key factors that slowed the process to a crawl.
...It took Smith more than a year to obtain text messages between Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark. And the department spent months fighting to access communications of John Eastman, a lawyer who helped devise Trump’s last-ditch efforts to remain in power.
The most protracted battles of all stemmed from Trump’s “broad invocation of executive privilege to try to prevent witnesses from providing evidence,” Smith wrote. It took months of secretive legal proceedings to secure testimony from Trump White House aides such as Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino and Pat Cipollone. Former Vice President Mike Pence also resisted testifying until a court ordered him to reveal some — but not all — details about his interactions with Trump. Smith noted that judges broadly rejected Trump’s privilege claims, with one holding that he was engaged in an “obvious” effort to delay the investigation.
Smith also drew attention to what may have been his biggest foil: the Supreme Court. He pointed out that the justices rebuffed his effort to put Trump’s presidential immunity claims on a similar timetable to the one the court adopted five decades earlier in litigation over Watergate and President Richard Nixon’s tapes.
And Smith argued that the Supreme Court’s resolution of Trump’s immunity assertion essentially guaranteed another round of litigation that would have been all but certain to return to the justices if Trump had not won the election and the prosecution had continued.
read: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/14/jack-smith-special-counsel-report-takeaways-00198252
So bravo for not even mentioning the republican-dominated courts, and casting all of the blame on the people who were actually prosecuting Trump. Fucking brilliant, that.
I mean, aren't there already enough people already attacking the folks in the Biden DOJ who were prosecuting Trump? Why does this disconnect persist in this unevidenced shorthand?
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