AG Merrick Garland Appoints Special Counsel For Trump Probes - TPM – Talking Points Memo

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If I had a dollar for every time Garland is called a coward in the WaPo’s comments section, I’d be richer than whoever has the billion dollar Powerball ticket

Pearl-cluchers, all

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Bullshit.

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I said it better if I do say so myself. But thank you!

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Trump will be dead before he ever gets prosecuted.

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Succinct lol

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tomato tomahto

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I think you miss read Garland. I think he’s trying to balance things out at the DOJ post TFG. I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions.

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Barbara McQuade just made the point on MSNBC that you don’t appoint a Special Counsel - especially someone like Jack Smith - if you’re just going to walk away from indictments. Short delay, but indictments more likely sooner rather than later, with bigger impact than if DOJ acted on its own.

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Hey, it might be pronounced differently but it’s still spelled the same. /s

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Patience grasshoppers

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WaPo:

Jack Smith, a longtime federal prosecutor who has in recent years been working at the International Criminal Court at The Hague

Full CV here (look back in the stream to where Garland comes to the podium):

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Yea, I just don’t know how to do phonetics.

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Barbara McQuade:

“You don’t appoint a special counsel to decline a case”

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Yup. DOJ gonna do a Ted Stevens on Trump

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Justice, like lightning, ever should appear;
To few men ruin, but to all men fear.
Thomas Randolph

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I will say this:

What Garland does from here will have existential importance for this Republic. I think a few of us will agree…

There is no moving out of the way of the necessity of dealing with an extremely dangerous individual…

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Hope not. Didn’t Stevens get acquitted? And wasn’t it Jack Smith who went in to fix this?

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Pretty soon, I hope.

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Also this, she has a good thread going on this.



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Why? There is no conflict of interest. The election is 2 years off. There are no extraordinary circumstances, except that it is Trump. Everyone else in similar circumstances have been charged and jailed.

Do you really think Barr would have blinked, and appointed someone? Nope, he would charge them.

Lastly, the GOP will try and shred the SC and Garland no matter what. So the hope this insulates them from attack is delusional.

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