“But for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the report said.

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    21 hours ago

    At which point do we call a spade a spade and declare the DOJ and the prosecutors to be accomplices for their roles in protecting an obviously guilty grifter at the expense of justice and the common good?

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      We did long ago. All of the prosecution for four years ago should have started 3.9 years ago, and it didn’t, and that was an active choice by DOJ leadership and Joe Biden.

      (And screw them for doing that.)

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        Sure, but just being honest about it in stead of making up a ton of bullshit excuses would still be preferable to the pretzel logic of the media and the Blue No Matter Who apparatchiks.