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In reply to the discussion: Emptywheel: While TV lawyers wailed, DOJ obtained communications from Rudy, Powell, Meadows [View all]Fiendish Thingy
(15,611 posts)So much has been revealed and actions have been taken in just the past month, the whole balance of the investigation has shifted dramatically.
Would you have preferred Trump have been indicted back in, say, August, rather than under the present circumstances, which now include the SCOTUS decision on privilege claims and all the new revelations (memos to seize voting machines) of recent weeks, not to mention the testimony of top Pence staffers who were in the room when the coup plan was created, as well as following the recent indictments of Oathkeepers for seditious conspiracy? Some of these Oathkeepers have but one degree of separation between themselves and Trump and his inner circle, and some are looking at sentences of up to 80 years. One of them willingly testified to the committee today.
Would you have wanted to see indictments of Trump et al before all these recent events? How would that have affected the investigations and prosecutions? Despite the obvious nature of Trumps crimes, the floodgates of Prima Facie evidence have just begun to open, providing clear legal proof of intent, malice, and knowledge of illegality required to sustain an indictment, prevent a dismissal, and increase the odds of a conviction.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/prima_facie
All of this has occurred since the first of the year.
Yet, you and so many others have been screaming for months that Trump should have been indicted long, long ago