As more indictments come out today, a reminder that all the "they won't ever investigate/indict Trump" stuff you've been hearing for years was manufactured misinformation.
That WaPo story a while back that Merrick Garland refused to investigate Trump, for example? What actually happened was that Garland insisted on taking down Trump the way he'd take down a mob boss: by going after low-level folks first, then using them to get to higher and higher levels, and eventually to the big boss himself, at which point the special counsel was appointed to finish it.
Trying to go after him directly on day one would have been a dopamine hit and nothing more; it would have accomplished nothing useful and poisoned future attempts at a serious investigation.
So Jack Smith's indictments today are the fruit of years of thankless, tireless work by Merrick Garland's DoJ to build this case and the evidence in it, doing things the effective and largely unseen way rather than the pleasing-to-social-media way. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
The problem is that what they came up with is so empty that it ended up being the dopamine hit that it could have been in he beginning.
They had to pare back charges to the point of having precious little left.
Trump is to be defeated in the court of public opinion. All of this legal stuff is trying to skip the messy task of talking to other voters and informing them, and instead trying to short circuit the democratic process with a questionable legal process.
It didn't work.
