Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes
Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes
Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes
Acting on a mix of principle and caution, Justice Department officials under former President Joe Biden made a series of decisions that significantly delayed and ultimately may have hampered the federal criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, according to a new book.
The slow decision-making at the top of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department affected two major probes into Trump after he lost the White House in 2020: whether he illegally possessed and obstructed the retrieval of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, and whether he conspired illegally to overturn the 2020 election.
This is why I'm harder on the Democrats than the Republicans. Their incompetence and corruption helped get us here, and fixing them seems like the best way out. The Republican party is beyond repair.
Except that this article is pointing out the opposite of that. It wasn't "incompetence and corruption" that got us here. It was integrity and thoroughness that led to those cases being slowed down. They followed the law and made sure that what they were doing was correct and fair.
The problem with that strategy, was that Republicans were not doing that. They were rapidly implementing their plans to take advantage of Democrats adherence to protocol and the rule of law.
When the results clearly show incompetence, don't fall for the administration's mouthpieces that it was actually "integrity and thoroughness".
Democrats use adherence to protocol to shield them from doing what they don't want to do, and their primary motivation has always been shielding powerful people from consequences.
So it was a bad strategy. End of argument.
If you are actively strategizing, planning around what your enemies are NOT doing isn't strategy, it's stupidity. And it is what Dems have been doing for decades. They just want to blame Republicans for their complete lack of foresight rather than ever be accountable for letting the GOP cuck every single policy of theirs. Now to the point of undoing hundreds of years of legal precedent and progress.
The time for integrity and thoroughness had long since passed before Biden took office, so using it to defeat Trump was about as effective as using a fax machine to share memes. Being anything but aggressive after an active coup attempt that miraculously failed is astronomically naive at best.
But Biden was handed a literal democracy destroying shotgun with one barrel labeled "complete legal immunity" and the other "infinite executive authority" and he looked at that gift from the Supreme Court and decided it was best left to the next president to use. Oops wasnt Kamala. So now instead of Biden expanding the executive branch to control congressional decisions such as how many members of the Supreme Court there are, Trump is doing it to consolidate complete power and authority.
Our Supreme Court built a political Nuclear Bomb, that was 100% going to be used by Trump to destroy this country, and they gifted it to Biden first. His decision to not benevolently use it to destroy the holes in our Democracy MAGA has infested doomed us to be a corpse eaten by those MAGAT's.
This article is PR for those who failed to protect our country to feel better about it. They failed. They sucked at their job by using clearly outdated strategies, and they did it despite our literal democracy being on the line. I do not blame the unstoppable force that is the MAGA GOP, I blame the Democrats who acted as tin cans for decades when they swore they could be immovable objects. Glad this article clears up the fact they literally never could be.
The kind of apologetics demonstrated in this comment is why we can't look towards politics for solutions towards the problem we as a people face.
There will always be a useful idiot ready to come in and make excuses for the failures of the Democratic party, of Democratic strategy, of the normalcy which is modern corporate cargo-cult neoliberalism. Democrats are never failures; they can only ever be failed.
And the acceptance of the normalization; this quaint framing that the Democrats are the good guys, goodie-twoshoes, rule followers (when the "rules" are largely just made up), and "just trying to do the right thing"; this constant willingness to excuse their perpetual failure: Its this kind of response to utter and complete vacuous nature of the modern Democratic party that makes political solutions to the problems our planet faces impossible to solve through political processes.
We're past the point where we can continue to blame Democrats for being failures. Its time to start focusing on the people willing to excuse and make excuses for their failures, since they are the barrier to making a sufficiently meaningful change to the Democratic party; this is necessary such that we can carve a political path forwards to creating meaningful positive change in the world.
They're saying the (current) justice department's allegations that the case was politically motivated is undermined by how slow the investigation went, AND that some insiders at the time thought it was moving too slowly. It can be both, and we're stuck with the consequences of not holding Trump accountable for at least 3 more years.
I stand by what I said. They act like they're above the law because Democrats are too corrupt and incompetent to apply the law to them. With this kind of opposition, they are above the law.
thanks for the laugh