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Mary Hilton's avatar

Amen!

I keep seeing all these 'legal experts', law professors and talking heads discussing this like they're in the loop on the various cases.

They keep saying doing this or that is a mistake. They're convinced Merrick Garland is making mistakes.

All I would like for them to do is to step into Mr. Garland's shoes for a week and then tell me what they would do if they were doing his job?

They'd all be floored. None of them have been in the position Garland is, or have done as much as he has so far.

They'd all be floundering because, as you have so perfectly put it, a President of the United States has never been investigated or prosecuted for the crimes that they're investigating him for: espionage, sedition, obstruction of justice and any other great number of crimes we won't even go into.

These legal experts and opinionators have no idea of how legally complex, unique and arduous this undertaking is, and I wouldn't blame Merrick Garland for getting a bit pissed at being told he isn't doing his job properly.

Donald Trump knows his rights, unfortunately and he's going to throw glass into the road to make the cars slow down-but that does not mean the DOJ or Garland are going to back off at all.

If anything, it's making them double-down even harder because they know what he's doing is wasting everyone's time and money-but they have more of both, and they'll break him yet.

Double-guessing the man is a mistake. Garland brought Timothy McVeigh and his crime to justice. If anyone can take down Donald Trump, it's Merrick Garland.

And I'm sure he'd be the first to quit if he could not bring a solid case against Trump. He's not a tool or a fool.

Jack Smith was a prosecutor at the Hague. That's about the highest place any lawyer can ever go, even better than the Supreme Court. If he can't handle the case, nobody can.

Prosecuting war crimes is much harder than prosecuting 2 bit ante ex-President con men.

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Richard Turnbull, J.D.'s avatar

This is taking me away for a few minutes from the classic Iowa-Minnesota football battle for Floyd of Rosedale here in Minneapolis, I noticed one of the Gophers' linebackers, #45 "Lindy" Lindenberg was playing stout defense in the bitter cold sixteen blocks from here, in a close game (Iowa 10, Minnesota 7) late in the 2nd Quarter.

Special Counsel Jack Smith shows no signs of being intimidated at all by any of this --- he just came onto this project from war crimes investigations in Europe. Watch for indictments for at least 18 USC 793 (e) by the spring of 2023. And of course the GOP wingnuts will be obfuscating, and lying constantly, and inciting their crackpot base, in attempts to shut it all down.

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