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Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes (www.msnbc.com)
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Acting on a mix of principle and caution, Justice Department officials under former President Joe Biden made a series of decisions that significantly delayed and ultimately may have hampered the federal criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, according to a new book.

The slow decision-making at the top of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department affected two major probes into Trump after he lost the White House in 2020: whether he illegally possessed and obstructed the retrieval of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, and whether he conspired illegally to overturn the 2020 election.

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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

The problem with that strategy, was that Republicans were not doing that.

So it was a bad strategy. End of argument.

If you are actively strategizing, planning around what your enemies are NOT doing isn't strategy, it's stupidity. And it is what Dems have been doing for decades. They just want to blame Republicans for their complete lack of foresight rather than ever be accountable for letting the GOP cuck every single policy of theirs. Now to the point of undoing hundreds of years of legal precedent and progress.

The time for integrity and thoroughness had long since passed before Biden took office, so using it to defeat Trump was about as effective as using a fax machine to share memes. Being anything but aggressive after an active coup attempt that miraculously failed is astronomically naive at best.

But Biden was handed a literal democracy destroying shotgun with one barrel labeled "complete legal immunity" and the other "infinite executive authority" and he looked at that gift from the Supreme Court and decided it was best left to the next president to use. Oops wasnt Kamala. So now instead of Biden expanding the executive branch to control congressional decisions such as how many members of the Supreme Court there are, Trump is doing it to consolidate complete power and authority.

Our Supreme Court built a political Nuclear Bomb, that was 100% going to be used by Trump to destroy this country, and they gifted it to Biden first. His decision to not benevolently use it to destroy the holes in our Democracy MAGA has infested doomed us to be a corpse eaten by those MAGAT's.

This article is PR for those who failed to protect our country to feel better about it. They failed. They sucked at their job by using clearly outdated strategies, and they did it despite our literal democracy being on the line. I do not blame the unstoppable force that is the MAGA GOP, I blame the Democrats who acted as tin cans for decades when they swore they could be immovable objects. Glad this article clears up the fact they literally never could be.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I get the frustration, but just because Trump has found ways to game the system, doesn't mean throwing the system out, is going to be any better. Once both sides abandon the rule of law, then there is nothing left to keep shit from going way off the rails.

    So, unless you are fully prepared to go to actual war to solve your problems, the legal system is still your only option. And despite what you might think, that system has been holding him back this entire time. He is losing far more cases in court than people realize. It's just that the media covers his wins more than his many losses...because his wins are scarier. And scary gets more clicks. And even when most of his wins get quickly overturned again, they simply don't get talked about anymore.

    The bottom line comes down to "what kind of country do you want to live in?" One where whoever is in charge at the moment can just unilaterally declare their enemies to be criminals and summarily punish them, without due process...or one where you have the right to defend yourself in court against that kind of tyranny. If your solution to Trump, is to just be more like Trump, then all you're really doing is fighting for a system exactly like the one he wants.

    If you want a system that stands in opposition to his methods, then you can't just use his own methods to oppose him.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    You're not making a bad argument. Just the wrong one.

    The system we have is now whatever Trump wants it to be. Going back to the system we had previously would now be just as radical as changing it into one that actually benefits us.

    The system we had lead to Trump. Period. Why would you want that again?

    Ask yourself: when should we go back to exactly?

    Back to before the Patriot Act robbed us of our constitutional right to privacy?

    Back before no child left behind made our graduating high schoolers functionally illeterate?

    Back before Citizens United allowed corpate power to influence every single election for decades denying you minimum wage, universal Healthcare, or literally anything that would detract from corporate profits over public welfare?

    Back before Reaganomics then?

    Maybe further back before the business plot of 1933 to overthrow the government in place of business nepotism?

    Or maybe before all the Tariffs we passed in the 1920's that accelerated the great depression?

    100 years later we literally have the same problems. Just without the benefit of actually stopping them from destroying our government.

    Half the white house is missing. An elected congress person isn't being sworn in. Our own military is in our cities and it's to protect masked police deporting some citizens with no due prosses.

    This is not a future we reached by mistake. It is a future that was inevitable given the limitations of our existing system, combined with the centuries sociopaths have had to game it. We should not go back to it. It will just lead us here again.

    It would be far better to use as a model for a better system. Certainly many other countries already have. But do not let nostalgia blind you to the fact that the problems in the system we have are inherent, and they are not fixable from within using the systems tools. They allow for exploits to grow, and after a hundred years, fail entirely in containing them effectively.

    During WW2, a very difficult decision was made to use nuclear weapons. Killing hundreds of thousands to stop millions from dying. If they were not dropped the losses in the south pacific would be well over 8 million dead.

    The argument you are currently making, given the WW2 context, is for us not to drop the bomb. Despite us already being at a point where Orange Hitler is about to destroy Snap benefits killing millions more than USAID closing and COVID already have.

    There is no more normal course of action given the current situation. And there hasn't been for quite some time. Just because Democrats haven't noticed that in decades, doesn't mean they ever will. This article confirms they won't, and was written as PR for people like you to believe otherwise.

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