Michael Stern over at the NY Daily News gives his reason….
It’s Trump’s batting avergae in criminal cases against him, which is pretty damn good….
Add to the this that Trump is a foremer US President ….
And I tend to agree…
‘The Donald’ maybe untouchable criminally….
But civilly?
The New York State Attornet General Office has had more success….
Winning several judgements against Trump, who they are going after again….
Michael Stern: “Every competent prosecutor knows why Garland and the Department of Justice have not indicted Trump. I’m going to say it out loud.”
“If Trump were charged, it’s unlikely he would negotiate a plea deal. Instead, he would go to trial and make every step of the process a platform to cast himself as a victim of a vindictive Biden administration. He would use the renewed attention to spew lies about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. And he would raise money, lots of money, to fund his anticipated 2024 presidential campaign.”
“But most important, despite a mountain of evidence that would convict most people many times over, Trump would not be convicted. Criminal convictions require a unanimous verdict. On a 12-person jury, there are going to be Trump supporters.”
Note…
Will the media stories like about push AG Garland to accept the House Select Committee’s possible push for criminal charges against the ex-President to be persued?
Remember….
The House Jan.6 committee has NO ability to prosecute criminal charges against ANYONE….
Only the AG Garland’s Justice Dept. can….
The Jan. 6 committee is considering recommending enhanced criminal penalties for the “kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
Driving the news: Cheney, who serves as the vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, referenced Trump’s refusal to “tell the mob to go home after he had provoked that attack on the Capitol.”
What she’s saying: Cheney said there will “certainly” be new information coming from the committee.
“I can tell you I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned or less worried about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway.”
— Rep. Liz Cheney on “Meet the Press”
Cheney said she doesn’t regret voting to acquit Trump during his first impeachment trial — which came after a phone call in which he pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Biden family.
The Jan. 6 attack is “fundamentally different” from the circumstances surrounding the first impeachment trial, Cheney said. “We all watched that unfold in real-time. We all lived through that attack.”
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