Thread by @PalmerReport

Bill Barr killed the DOJ investigation into Rudy Giuliani. Then Merrick Garland came in, and now the DOJ is aggressively targeting Rudy again – including for the Trump-Ukraine scandal. Stop saying Garland is refusing to prosecute Trump’s people. We already have proof it’s untrue.

Garland’s DOJ is also criminally targeting Trump lawyer Victoria Toensing over the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

And although it’s apparently unrelated to Trump’s crimes, Garland’s DOJ is criminally targeting infamous Trump lackey Matt Gaetz.

Garland’s DOJ has brought conspiracy charges against multiple Roger Stone underlings for the Capitol attack, making for at least the possibility that Stone will also be charged with conspiracy for the Capitol attack.

By the end of this year, Garland’s DOJ will have Giuliani, Toensing, Gaetz, and perhaps Stone in handcuffs. If the DOJ is going to criminally charge Trump, those would be its key cooperating witnesses right there.

None of this proves that the Feds will ultimately charge Trump. None of us has any way of knowing if that’ll happen.

But it demolishes the narrative that Garland is refusing to go after Trump’s people, or that Garland is trying to let Trump off the hook.

New York recently empaneled a grand jury to indict Trump for financial crimes. He’ll be arrested there within months. So there’s no hurry for the Feds to target Trump. They’ll be going second after New York anyway. Might as well use the time to rack up some cooperating witnesses.

When the defeatists insist Trump and his people have gotten away with it all, they’re relying on the logical fallacy that if someone hasn’t been arrested yet, they never will be. They’re also ignoring how long a criminal case takes to build, and the intermediary steps being taken

The judge just appointed a special master to determine which of Rudy’s seized communications will go to prosecutors. The criminal case against him is clearly still on track and working its way through the usual legal procedures.

Two cooperating witnesses have cut deals against Matt Gaetz in the past month. Why hasn’t he been arrested yet? The Feds are obviously working their way through the mountain of new evidence and testimony they just received, so they can build a stronger indictment against Gaetz.

You have to go out of your way to ignore these facts in order to pretend that “nothing is being done” and that “Trump and his people are getting away with it all.”

But then again, the angry mouth foaming defeatist types always ignore the facts that don’t fit their narrative.

Should it go faster? Yes.

Can it go faster? No.

Is enough being done? We don’t know the totality of what all is or isn’t being done.

Should we push Garland to do more? Of course. But keep it realistic. If you demand magic wand solutions, no serious person will listen to you.

But why haven’t members of Congress been arrested yet for the insurrection?

No jury would convict them based on their words alone.

It’s why you arrest 500 capitol invaders and hope one or more of them has proof that the Congress members were directly conspiring with them.

There’s no basis yet for concluding that members of Congress will, or will not, be indicted for January 6th. But if they are going to be indicted, what we’re currently seeing would be the process. That door hasn’t closed, not even by an inch.

“But unless something is done right this minute, Trump and his side will win!”

The media and the pundits have been feeding us that line every day of 2021, and every day it’s turned out to be untrue. At some point you realize they’re just trying to scare you for attention.