This international criminal web is huge. Merrick Garland and "The Octopus"

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36. no, the courts fell short, then the American people followed

read some facts and respond to them, instead of the simple proposition that time passed and it must be the prosecution's fault.

Politico put it succinctly in outlining conclusions in Smith's final report:

___A common sentiment on the left is that Garland was too deferential to Trump after Joe Biden took office and failed to unleash the full might of the department on the former president for nearly two years. The delay, critics say, made it much more difficult for Smith — once he was appointed in November 2022 — to bring Trump to trial before the 2024 election.

But 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.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/14/jack-smith-special-counsel-report-takeaways-00198252

ANYTIME folks are ready to move past this embarrassing abandonment of the Trump prosecution, and are willing to reject the Trump DOGE-enabling attacks on what's essentially the prosecutors who worked successfully to indictments with more than enough time for a trial (the ones getting fired right now for doing the job the left claims never happened), we can all confront the corrupt, interfering and enabling courts together, who, should be noted, unlike the efforts of the Biden DOJ, did not hasten justice in their respective positions in order to protect the American people from the clear and present insurrectionist.

I mean, they're still fucking there enabling the man they allowed back into office, and Garland is out of power.

When is this avoidance going to end of refusing to confront the people who engineered the delays until the election? Critics are still mired in attacking the prosecution instead of the perp; working to downplay and discredit the prosecution of Trump, even as the WH is working to downplay and discredit the prosecution and jail the prosecutors.

How many of these critics even know what's in the indictment, or the present state of the charges. Do they care? Clue: They're preserved for a future prosecution. Why the flagging energy for that effort? Wondering myself, given the lengths gone to drag the prosecution?

Did it ever occur to you that you have the absolute wrong person in your sights?

Doesn't it feel the least bit weird attacking the prosecutors, instead of the judges and justices who actually delayed a trial for charges that dropped some SEVENTEEN MONTHS before we voted?

I mean, they're STILL FUCKING IN POWER.

The person who was doing the right thing is not.