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More thoughts: Trump Got Away With It — Because of the Biden Administration’s Massive Missteps

"The other sad part is garland will not release anything to the public.
If he had that mindset, none of this bullshit would have gone this far. garland is one of the main actors supporting the 2025 and failing tremendously with his 'oath' to protect the public.
Protecting a nazi dictator by hiding under a manipulated reborn 50 year old ordinance/rule that was shoved in there to try and save nixon and didn't stand up to the rule of law at that time isn't protecting the country from known criminals and nazi's.
Biden still has the time to fire garland, put in someone else that will do the right thing."

Blame Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court.

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Garland is a serious, well-intentioned and complex figure .. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/15/merrick-garland-donald-trump-00066769 . But given all this, he may go down as one of the worst and most broadly unpopular attorney generals in American history — hated by the anti-Trump part of the country for failing to bring Trump to justice, and hated by the pro-Trump part of the country for pursuing Trump at all. I sincerely hope he provides a first-hand accounting of what happened after he too leaves office next year.

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None of this, however, excuses the Republican political and legal class for their role in all this as well. In fact, Trump could not have pulled it off without a great deal of help from them too.

Start with Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans in 2021. They could — and should — have voted to convict Trump .. https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/trump-second-impeachment-senate-vote/ .. after his second impeachment, which would have prevented him from running again for the presidency. Instead, McConnell and almost every other GOP senator let him off the hook.

Trump then proceeded to execute perhaps the most remarkable political rehabilitation in American history, but which should not have been nearly such a surprise. He never seemed to lose his grip on the party and in fact strengthened it over the course of 2021, as the likes of Kevin McCarthy and others quickly rallied around him .. https://www.axios.com/2021/05/13/liz-cheney-kevin-mccarthy-trump .

The Republican presidential primaries also proved, in the end, to be a boon for Trump in his legal fight. By the time they concluded, Trump had been indicted by the Justice Department and local prosecutors in Manhattan and Fulton County. Under the traditional rules of politics, this should have provided incredible fodder for his adversaries and essentially killed his campaign.

Instead, his most prominent primary opponents — his opponents — came to his defense. As the prosecution in Manhattan came into focus, for instance, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis belittled the effort as “some manufactured circus by some Soros-DA.” Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy both said that they would pardon Trump if elected.

It was no surprise, then, that Republican primary voters rallied around Trump. Perhaps it was inevitable, but it was certainly made easier by the fact that Trump’s supposed adversaries were all endorsing his legal defense as well as his false claims about the prosecutions themselves.

Last but most certainly not least: The Republican appointees on the Supreme Court bailed Trump out this year — in the heart of the general election campaign and when it mattered most.

A very large swathe of the public — somewhere around 60 percent according to our polling and others — wanted Trump to stand trial this year in the 2020 election subversion case. Before the Supreme Court weighed in, an even larger portion of Americans — somewhere around 70 percent — rejected the idea that presidents should be immune from prosecution for alleged crimes they committed while in office.

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