(Hint: it isn’t the AG)
I don’t have any “special knowledge”, just a clear, fact based understanding of both the Trump investigations (which, by your post it is clear you do not) and how the justice system processes work.
Even if Garland had indicted Trump the day after Biden was inaugurated, and gotten a trial date for the following week, SCOTUS would have heard infinite numbers of appeals on a myriad of minutiae, and delayed any trial date until after the 2024 election.
That opinion is based on actual events, and actual rulings by this SCOTUS.
Remember, that once the immunity ruling was handed down, then each charge had to be ruled on by the trial judge on whether the behaviours involved were considered “official acts” and thus immune.
Any ruling by the trial judge would be appealed all the way to SCOTUS…how long do you think would take? (Hint: look at the record for the timeline of all the other SCOTUS rulings related to the Trump indictments- the immunity ruling alone took 8-9 months)
And we aren’t even to discovery or jury selection yet- most legal experts estimated that jury selection for the DC charges could take 6-9 months.
So, my opinion that, regardless of who the AG was, the outcome would have been exactly the same - no trial before the election - is an informed opinion.
If you have an informed opinion of your own, please share it, along with the information that supports it.
P.S. That person, “emptywheel”, is Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net, a longtime blogger who is respected and reknowned for her legal analysis. She gets into the weeds, poring over court transcripts and evidence, and then writes up excellent summaries of what it all means, with links to all the supporting material.
Her site has a wealth of information, as opposed to speculative clickbait nonsense that spreads mythology and misinformation.
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