Quote (IceMage @ Aug 15 2023 08:25pm)
Republican voters reportedly are still part of the Trump cult and thus look at the indictment as more reason to vote for him.
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This deeply unfortunate timing looks political and has potent political implications even if it is not driven by partisan motivations. And it is the Biden administration’s responsibility, as its Justice Department reportedly delayed the investigation of Mr. Trump for a year and then rushed to indict him well into the G.O.P. primary season. The unseemliness of the prosecution will most likely grow if the Biden campaign or its proxies use it as a weapon against Mr. Trump if he is nominated.
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A Washington Post investigation found that more than a year would pass before prosecutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal probe of actions directed from the White House to try to steal the election. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation. A wariness about appearing partisan, institutional caution, and clashes over how much evidence was sufficient to investigate the actions of Trump and those around him all contributed to the slow pace. Garland and the deputy attorney general, Lisa Monaco, charted a cautious course aimed at restoring public trust in the department
Now, the Washington Post reads "waiting until the point of maximal partisan gain" as "restoring public trust", but then the Washington Post is a modern day propaganda outlet on par with the worst abuses of the old Soviet Pravda.
The real disaster here would be for Trump to be convicted under a "novel" legal theory, lose the election by a hair, and then have that conviction overturned by the Supreme Court. The credibility of American institutions would never recover.