Jan 6. committee prosecutor Tim Heaphy: I expect (charges) sometime in the next four to six months.

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excerpt from Wednesday's MSNBC interview of Tim Heaphy, who was the lead investigator for the House Jan. 6 committee. He weighed in on the proper timeline for a potential Donald Trump prosecution, and more.

Tim Heaphy:

I think DOJ is mindful of the traditional department policy that you don’t want to bring charges that may impact an election and therefore they need to be brought well in advance of the 2024 election if they are implicating a candidate for president.

So I expect it sometime in the next four to six months. Ideally, they bring a case sometime this spring or summer. If it goes into the fall, then you’re starting to be into primary season and getting closer to an election — and of course, once a charge is brought, there’s a lot that happens before the trial and the matter is adjudicated.

So they need to bring it soon enough for that ideally to run its course well before the 2024 election. And look, what they’re doing now, it really seems like the end stage because of the subpoena to former Vice President [Mike Pence], to the president’s daughter and son-in-law. They’re pretty close now, it seems to me, to the most important witnesses, so I think that they are likely close to the end.

...I have learned over the years: You just really can’t predict what happens with criminal cases, with trials. Sometimes they go really slowly. Sometimes they go fast. There are curveballs that happen all the time. I don’t know. I mean, you’re right. The standard here would be (a Trump trial) would take a year or so. There will be contested pretrial motions type issues. But I won’t be surprised if it goes faster.

read more: https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/tucker-carlson-fox-news-tim-heaphy-interview-rcna73985

[SoCalDavidS]

1. They Aren't Going To Get Testimony From Pence For At Least 6-8 Months

Teflon Man is not going to be indicted. He's Above The Law.

[chicoescuela]

2. 100 % agree

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3. they've made choices like this before at DOJ

...DOJ has already demonstrated they'll cut away from a protracted fight over privilege.

We have no way of knowing if prosecutors already have enough to work around these principal witnesses. To my eye, they already know what these perps like Pence will cop to. At this stage its a matter of parading them in front of the grand jury to tell their tales to jurors already steeped in evidence and testimony from their underlings.

Pence will be squeezed as far as they're able. And if all he does is plead the 5th, it may not be credible for jurors already in the end stage, no matter how many times the judge tells them to disregard it. This isn't a zero-sum prosecution. It's a wide-ranging investigation involving hundreds of witnesses. This doesn't all ride on what Pence does.

[SoCalDavidS]

5. I'd Love To See Him Indicted. I Just Do Not Expect That He Will Be.

I've been saying since at least 2019, that he's Above The Law.

So far, there has been NOTHING to indicate that was wrong.

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11. whatever

...you start with the proposition that nothing will happen, and you don't bother to look for anything to happen.

It's not an actual view of the investigation, it's a view of your cynicism. Not very interesting.

Certainly not a counter to the lead investigator for the House Select Committee on the January 6 attack. I'd be embarrassed to say all that in front of someone who pursued justice in this case as diligently as Mr. Heaphy, but your mileage may vary.

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. It only took 2 months for SCOTUS to rule on Trump's privilege claims

And about that for a court to rule on Lindsay Graham’s Speech & Debate claim.

Regardless, Pence’s testimony is not as critical as some think.

[UTUSN]

4. Another/something supposedly for me to live for.

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7. take it for what it's worth

...it should have at least as much credence as a second-hand account just posted that claims Heaphy said charges would be after the election.

Not what he says here at all. It's really the only reason I bother to post this shit, because the misinformation flows like wine and anxious folks are all too happy to imbibe of pessimistic views and accounts of the investigation posted here.

Really amazing to me how folks shy away from even factual accounts of progress, but grab on to angst like it's the ultimate wisdom. I really wouldn't bother, but I come here for info and support for the DOJ fight and I find the opposite.

I guess people must think I live for this.

[UTUSN]

10. I like what I understand, thanks.

[Marcus IM]

6. Any minute now. We're about to turn the corner.

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8. oooh edgy, mocking justice.

....coming in snarky to slam any optimism.

You have to ask why? What actual purpose is in this? What's it for?

[Marcus IM]

17. No. Snarky about much of the undue "any minute now" projections.

I stopped getting breathless about the prospect of justice being served quickly after the outcome of the perfect phone call.

Not holding my breath. But, I'll celebrate if/when the tRump frog marches begin.

[brettdale]

9. It's Imminent

Im just wondering who will be the first to Indict Trump?

Fanni?
Tim?
Other?

Maybe arrests tomorrow???

Next week at the latest!

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12. yeah, mocking the pursuit of justice against Trump is actually not the snark you think it is

...it shows nothing but contempt for the multi-dozens of prosecutors working exclusively on Trump investigations, dual DOJ grand juries with over 40 jurors between them, and people like me who support their pursuit of justice against Trump and his co-conspirators.

Posting juvenile crap like this isn't suppport for justice against Trump, it's baiting and does nothing but divert from that pursuit.

[Beakybird]

14. Hear. Hear.

[brettdale]

19. It's called being a realist

I was all in on Fitmaz,

I was all in, Bush Jnr is going to Jail.

I was all in on Im sure there will be some males that will go
to Jail for raping kids at Jeff's Island, not just Maxwell.

I was all in, Prince Andrew is going down.

Ive been all in Trump is going down.

We have to face facts.

BAD PEOPLE WIN.

[Cartoonist]

13. Meanwhile . . .

The traitor is going around stirring up violence calling himself the Orange Avenger.

[H2O Man]

15. Recommended.

Thank you.

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. Fascinating, how two people can watch the same interview

And come away with exactly the opposite understanding of what was said.

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