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Jay Kuo Aug 10, 2023

There’s been much criticism of Merrick Garland for taking as he did to get where we finally are. But I see things a bit differently, based on how his Justice Department laid the groundwork for these new and novel charges against Trump. Read my analysis here:

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/was-merrick-garlands-approach-correct?sd=pf

Was Merrick Garland’s Approach Correct All Along?

I’m going to say something that might make me a bit unpopular. From where I sit, Attorney General Merrick Garland has taken a logical and reasonable legal path all along. How can I say this, though, given that January 6, 2021 is now more than two and a half years behind us, and ex-president Trump was only just this month charged with federal crimes such as obstruction of Congress and conspiracy?

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Holger Fiallo Aug 10, 2023

@jaykuo DOJ did not had a pair of balls so they gave it to what his name. Why? People will complain about DOJ been mean to Trump. People will complain about what his name doing the DOJ jobs. AG show that he was scare about what so call GOP would think. Poor excuse of AG. If you think he was guilty you do the job and not give it to someone els.

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Pamela Ehn Aug 16, 2023

@HolgerFiallo @jaykuo he did it so 1. the prosecution could be hurried up, and 2. so it would not look like he was playing politics. Giving the case to Jack Smith was a genius move.

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Holger Fiallo

@cadenza Playing politics? He is going to be accused one way or another. How many millions are spends now? AG job and DOJ. The AG when Bill had the issue with Monica was accused one way or another. How many millions were waisted there? If the president appoint someone to be AG they should had the balls to say screw it, "I am going to be accused one way or another".

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Pamela Ehn Aug 16, 2023

@HolgerFiallo except I think that is exactly what Garland did. Garland runs the DOJ. It is not necessary for him to personally run every single prosecution, and not even possible. Thousands of prosecutions related to J6 have already been prosecuted. He got Jack Smith, who successfully prosecuted other world leaders for war crimes, to expedite things. I don’t think we would have seen such speedy indictments had Garland personally run the prosecutions. He got the best man for the job and let the least off.