Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview on Wednesday that his team of investigators “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trump had criminally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to portions of his opening statement obtained by The Associated Press.
He also said investigators had accrued “powerful evidence” that Trump broke the law by hoarding classified documents from his first term as president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and by obstructing government efforts to recover the records.
“I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump’s political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 election,” Smith said. “We took actions based on what the facts and the law required — the very lesson I learned early in my career as a prosecutor.”
I hear you, it’s just the case that legal processes take a really long time. This is where they should have looked like they were cutting corners, but judges are their own political party and they don’t like rushing things.
It wouldn’t be an issue if republicans respected the rule of law, but they absolutely do not.
Yes, but there are cases where things get hurried along. Judges grant emergency orders all the time for particular reasons. There are plenty of important cases that manage to take less than four years when it’s fucking important.
They thought they could take their time and do things “normal” and complete, because Trump wouldn’t come near power again. It was obvious even at the time that that was stupid and wrong, and failing to treat it as an emergency on par with September 11th or something was a massive fuckup born of complacency and timidity.
No one ever went broke underestimating the American public, as they say.
This just the same miserable excuse we were getting for inaction at the time. There were no excuses for it then, there are no excuses for it now, and engaging in excuse making for the failures of the Biden administration is exemplary of the definitive failure of liberalism.