Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Garland’s caution may have put the Justice Department in a quandary
In other words, the Justice Department may have viewed the violent assault on the Capitol as the totality of the crime and never expected to find conclusive proof of Trump’s involvement. By starting at the bottom of the chain, the Justice Department failed to look for evidence in Trump’s inner circle regarding his connection to the violent phase of the insurrection. That might explain why prosecutors were surprised that Hutchinson’s testimony tied Trump to the violence .
Regardless of whether that explanation of Garland’s outlook is correct, it is clear the Jan. 6 committee has made far more progress linking Trump to possible criminal violations than federal prosecutors have. It went looking for those connections and found them.
to staff up. The department now faces the prospect that Trump will announce his presidential run in the fall, which the former president will use to cast any subsequent charges as political efforts to keep him from office.that the legal threat Trump faces is “front-of-mind” for him as he considers a presidential run, according to four of the former president’s associates:
Trump has “spoken about how when you are the president of the United States, it is tough for politically motivated prosecutors to ‘get to you,’” says one of the sources, who has discussed the issue with Trump this summer. “He says when [not if] he is president again, a new Republican administration will put a stop to the [Justice Department] investigation that he views as the Biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges — or even put him and his people in prison.
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