“Special counsel Jack Smith laid out new evidence to support his assertion that Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election were taken as a private candidate, rather than his official capacity as the president…”

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    they’ve been saying that for 3 years, though. Well. would have been… but it took that long to get here.

    grrr.

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      3 months ago

      When you’re building a case against someone like Trump, you wait until it’s rock solid before moving on it. There’s the reason federal prosecutors have such a high conviction rate.

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        3 months ago

        And?

        It took them 2.5 years to get the fucking documents back. Because “that might be political” It took them only slightly less time to get a special prosecutor appointed. marrick garland absolutely went political in the other way because he was scared of trump and slow walked the shit out of it in the hopes that trump would just go away.

        Trump led an insurrection to try and overthrow the lawful government of the united states, he was never “just” going to go away.