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Truscha Quatrone's avatar

The slowness of Merrick Garland to move against DJT, will result in NO indictment. The GOP now has a valid reason to stop the investigation regarding the classified document trove that were taken from DJT property. Garland has treated DJT as someone special, he is not. He is an ordinary citizen and should be treated as such. We are at the beginning of the 3rd years with insurmountable evidence against Trump and his enablers. When Mr. Garland are you going to do anything?

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Steven, I have been eagerly waiting for your post here since the news of classified documents in Biden's garage broke yesterday afternoon. Twitter keeps sending me emails every time you tweet; but I am using all of the discipline I have to avoid twitter. Again, thank you for this space. I wish I could share your hope; but I'm not there yet. I see the Biden document mess as an "unforced error". Absolutely the Trump situation is very different from the Biden situation. However, Biden's attorneys discovered the documents, sadly, in a drip drip drip fashion instead of all at once, and Biden delayed in addressing the issue, and the documents were first discovered a few days before the midterms. And that was politically expedient; but really has an icky feel. Sure the other side plays politics; but I thought that when they go low we go high (to paraphrase Michelle Obama.) And in this very polarized environment, how many will recognize the difference in the volume of the documents Trump had vs the volume of documents Biden had? How many will remember Trump's words that he said the documents belonged to him? How many will remember that Tump obstructed justice which force the DOJ to use the FBI to get a search warrant for Mar-A-Lago? Reason and logic doesn't work in this environment. Those who scream the loudest, and who now have that slim majority on the House, will stuff over those clear differences and try to make the situations equal. We need to scream: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE vs the former occupant of the WH. And we need to be louder. I am very glad Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel, and a Trump appointee at that. Lindsay Graham was all over tv yesterday screaming for a special counsel, and without 1 there would be a clear appearance of politics. So, a special counsel takes away 1 of the GOP talking points; but, as I said, and sorry to repeat, but this is what I see as the problem, the GOP will say both sides took and kept classified documents so why is 45 on the verge of being indicted (oh I know that's wishful think, as I do hope he is on the verge). And I fear that it will be easy for the GOP to talk the MAGA audience into believing that the situations are equal but conservatives are being treated unfairly. Thus the link to the new committee that was formed this week to look into the Dems weaponizing the government against conservatives. I worry how much facts count vs how much appearance counts in the court of public opinion. Lots of people may not be paying as close attention to this as those of us who are engaged with what the government and the politicians; but the MAGA cult people will, without thinking on their own, just adopt whatever points of view they are told to adopt, because they are cult people and they have been trained not to think on their own but to just follow their leaders. I feel we are in a very dangerous place. I don't have your faith, yet, that truth and fairness and facts and adherence to the law will win. I hope you and the other thoughtful people in this group can give me faith. Thank you.

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