General Discussion

...refuting the bullshit that Garland wasn't investigating and pointing out the appeals process that often took years because of the way judges set the dates of hearings months into the future, and that there were myriad appeals that had to be fought in successive courts, sometimes up to the compromised Supreme Court before much of the key evidence gathered as early as 2021 would be available to present to the grand juries who make the recommendations to charge people for the federal government.

There was not 'almost two years wasted.' That's a provable lie for anyone who reads this report.

It's been a provable lie for years for anyone who bothers to read what's been reported about the investigation and prosecutions.

The most common misinformation has been that Garland waited unnecessarily to charge Trump. but the AG doesn't just bring indictments forward on some will and whim of his, DOJ uses grand juries to recommend charges in federal investigations.

As you can read in the Smith report, not only was evidence key to getting a grand jury to indict held up for sometimes years, testimony from key Trump officials was also held up in several courts proceedings with challenges to claims of executive privilege and attorney client protections which sometimes took as much as a year to resolve.

And the hearings which dates were set exclusively by often republican and Trump nominated judges and justices didn't all occur concurrently, but were dragged out for years before all of the evidence and witnesses were available for Jack Smith to present those to a grand jury.

No one has shown any evidence that the material Merrick Garland's prosecutors had gathered as early as 2021 was available to present to grand juries in the time you describe. To the contrary, this report clearly outlines those challenges and makes clear that the AG wasn't just diligent, but was successful in getting all of the evidence and witnesses through the myriad appeals through successive courts packed with republicans and Trumpers.

After all, it was Garland's prosecutors, DOJ career prosecutors, who argued all of the appeals cases, even after Jack Smith's appointment. Moreover, jack Smith inherited what was described as a 'fast moving investigation' which had already gathered more evidence than Mueller had when he started his own probe.

my receipts:


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/us/politics/trump-investigation-thomas-windom.html


https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel-high-profile-moves-trump-criminal-investigations/index.html



From Mike Pence to ‘fake’ electors, here’s who has testified to the January 6 grand jury or met with prosecutors
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/politics/grand-jury-testimony-list-january-6-trump/index.html