Michael A. Cohen: Trump critics need to put aside their bloodlust for reckoning and instead make sure Garland gets it right.
and require Trump’s attorney Evan Corcoran to answer questions regarding the hoarding of classified documents at Trump’s Florida home and also to turn over his notes detailing their conversations.
While it’s dangerous to draw too many conclusions from Garland’s selection of Smith — and it doesn’t mean an indictment of Trump is forthcoming — if the attorney general wanted to soft-pedal the Trump investigations he made a dubious choice. To be fair, much of the criticism of Garland comes from a somewhat understandable place — Trump looks guilty as hell. But as Toobin argued, “It really is premature to say that Garland has done a good or bad job, or whether he’s been courageous or cowardly in his investigation [of Trump]. We haven’t seen the documents,” nor do we know the particulars of the crimes Trump is accused of committing.
Garland’s critics are understandably outraged at Trump’s consistent ability to break the law without consequence. But prosecuting a former president is a fraught exercise. Prosecuting one who is likely to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee and face off against the current president is incredibly fraught, no matter how justified the indictment.
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