Everyday’s media reports about connections between the ex-President and the people who stromed the Capitol looking to delay or stop Congress from certifing the 2020 Presidential election results are given.
The House Select Committee probed the situation on Jan. 6 has several bits of evidence about the actions of Trump and his inner statff’s action urging actions and failing to stop the violence thrown at members of Congress of both parties and the Vice President …
Garland so far?
Has been mute…
He’s in a tough place…
Donald J. Trump IS an ex-President…
And?
A rich one witha lot of smart lawyers….
Besides the fact that American ex-President’s don’t get charged with crimes….
Trump has managed to escape past efforts to nail him down for misdeeds….
In addition?
Trump is sure to launch a re-election effort to use the political process as a defense against any criminal action against him…
The question really isn’t has the ex-President committed any crimes….
He has a history of doing so and IS under investigation by three different proscoutors in two different state for election and business fraud actions…
This lend to the observation by some that his actions, which tend to make him money , are actually a ‘criminal enterprise’..…
Opinion Timothy L. O’Brien/Bloomberg
A federal judge thinks that former President Donald Trump likely committed fraud — and probably knew it — when he and one of his lawyers, John Eastman, plotted to block Congress’s certification of the 2020 presidential election so Trump could hold on to power.
So how much longer will it take Attorney General Merrick Garland to draw the same conclusion about that attempted coup?
Perhaps Garland has already gone down that path. But there are no outward signs that he is investigating Trump with an eye toward a possible criminal prosecution. He has every reason to be circumspect, of course, but he has no reason to ignore the mounting evidence of Trump’s crimes.
The latest reminder of what’s at stake came in Monday’s ruling from David Carter, a U.S. District Court judge in California.
“Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history,” Judge Carter noted in his Monday ruling. “The plan spurred violent attacks on the seat of our nation’s government, led to the deaths of several law enforcement officers, and deepened public distrust in our political process…
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That peril, and the need to address it, informed Carter’s ruling. “The illegality of [Trump’s] plan was obvious,” he wrote. It was “a last-ditch attempt to secure the Presidency by any means.” Trump’s vice president told him there was no legal path to stop Biden from entering the White House. More than five dozen court cases that Trump’s team filed to overturn the election results were tossed out. Yet Trump pressed on. Because Trump did so, and “likely knew that the plan to disrupt the electoral count was wrongful, his mindset exceeds the threshold for acting ‘corruptly,’” Carter noted.
Carter’s certitude isn’t bias; he understands what’s right in front of him.
Garland should do the same.