(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . DOJ Prosecutors Must Prepare For Every Conceivable Defense BEFORE Bringing Charges Against #FPOTUS [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-01-10 I’ve recently read comments boldly stating (as if it were some well understood fact) that it is long past time for Attorney General Merrick Garland to resign from office for his failure to hand down a felony indictment for #FPOTUS. I’ve also seen comments suggesting that DOJ prosecutors are just pretending to conduct the largest and most complex investigation in American history. I’ve seen lamentations that it’s been two whole years since the insurrection and the big fish have yet to see justice. I used to spend over a hundred hours each week voraciously reading the news, doing research, writing diaries, and arguing with people who said stupid shit like that. These days you couldn’t pay me… Nationwide each and every day the DOJ conducts hundreds of searches, brings hundreds of indictments, convicts hundreds of criminals, and handles thousands of new an ongoing investigations… None of which have anything to do with the Capitol Riot or Donald FUCKING Trump! The Department of Justice that Merrick Garland was appointed to oversee on January 6th, 2021 was a broken institution after four years of Trump Administration leadership. At the time the DC court system was bogged down with a massive backlog of cases stemming from the global pandemic. The Acting Attorney General on that day had been on the job for less than a month. Nonetheless, since January 6th, 2021 the refurbished Justice Department has charged approximately 965 individuals, secured about 525 convictions, and sentenced somewhere around 363 seditionists for their part in storming the Capitol. Around 408 indictments have been handed down by grand juries, and government prosecutors have secured 490 guilty pleas. The DOJ has convicted 38 of the 39 insurrectionists who have taken their case to trial. 24 were convicted on all charges. Only seven of those charged so far have escaped justice, but the majority of them did so by dying… That’s likely Trump’s only path out of this shit. Trump knows he’s guilty, we know he’s guilty... the Attorney General and Department of Justice likewise understand he’s guilty... x This is what we call a summation exhibit. Proof from the defendant’s own mouth. And on video. https://t.co/896a89GJdj — Andrew Weissmann 🌻 (@AWeissmann_) October 10, 2022 The crucial aspect has always been obtaining a conviction. Merrick Garland’s appointment of Jack Smith as Special Counsel indicates to me that the DOJ probably has more evidence than they can process at the moment. Although they might indict #FPOTUS on the Mar-a-Lago documents separately, the coup and insurrection investigations are likely headed in the direction of conspiracy charges unprecedented in American history. It’s not remarkable at all that the Fulton County Grand Jury and New York Trump Organization investigations are further along. It took almost two years to convict Nixon’s cronies for covering up a simple botched burglary. It’s all a matter of scale. Before going to trial prosecutors need to anticipate any and all possible avenues of defense. OJ Simpson was acquitted because his defense attorneys exploited enough holes in the state’s prosecution to raise reasonable enough doubt in the minds of the jurors. If you thought that was a media circus, just wait until the shit show that’ll be US vs. Trump! The ratings are going to be yuuuuge!! In no way, shape, or form is Donald Trump “getting away with” any of this shit short of dying. He’s got about a snowball’s chance in hell of making it to election day 2024 as far as I can tell. Grand Juries have been impanelled. Subpoenas have been served. The DOJ has allocated every asset they can spare investigating these ongoing crimes, and they have all the time in the world to turn over every stone. That is until they hand down indictments... THAT’s when the clock starts ticking! At that point Team #FPOTUS has a right to a speedy trial and a right to discovery of the evidence. The Department of Justice has to game plan the biggest case in the history of the American Justice System before that momentous moment and they can leave absolutely nothing to chance… All the unwarranted criticism and unreasonable expectations will ever accomplish is an undermining of public confidence in the DOJ as they face this Herculean task. New revelations have been coming out on an almost weekly basis, and time and again the Department of Justice has prevailed in court after court... If you can’t see that Merrick Garland’s Justice Department has been doing one helluva fucking job under extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances, then I can only conclude that you just don’t want to. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/10/2144757/-DOJ-Prosecutors-Must-Prepare-For-Every-Conceivable-Defense-BEFORE-Bringing-Charges-Against-FPOTUS Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/