Thread by @MuellerSheWrote

THREAD: this is a great question. Let me answer based on what I know from years studying the complex investigations, and what I’ve learned talking to former federal prosecutors, US Attorneys, District Attorneys, public defenders, FBI directors, and DoJ folks 1/

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In the Fulton County GA case, it does not bother me that trump or his kids haven’t been questioned because of the nature of complex investigations which start with the small players and move up the ladder to the leaders. 2/

Per public reporting on the DA case in GA, I believe they’re looking at state RICO charges, which take a long time (Willis’s last one took over 2 years), and she 1) is underfunded 2) has a backlog, and 3) is in the early stages having not yet even interviewed Raffensberger 3/

You would need to interview him and other state election officials before you talk to trump or the kids because what you ask the target will depend entirely on what documentary evidence you’re able to get from other smaller witness testimony. Think Gates/Manafort 4/

On to the Manhattan DA. I’m not AT ALL worried Cy Vance hasn’t brought Donald or the kids into the grand jury because in NY, if you testify before the GJ, you get immunity, so they don’t bring targets in to testify (unless the target waives immunity, which they wouldn’t) 5/

And finally in the insurrection and coup attempt. Yes, I am a little worried they haven’t brought the trumps in to testify, though I suspect it’s for the same reason they haven’t done so in GA: they haven’t gotten there yet 5/

Back in JULY there were over 6000 grand jury subpoenas for the insurrection. It would make sense for the incitement part, that you first establish there was an attack by getting a bunch of plea deals where people admit they were trying to obstruct congress (stop the steal) 6/

Next you would go after the conspirators that planned it - like the Proud boys leaders, Oath Keepers, three percenters, etc. we know they’re being looked at for seditious conspiracy and more serious planning crimes, and many are cooperating. 7/

Once you have those confessions, you go after the planners and funders like Amy Kremer, though they’ll have a pretty good defense (we funded a rally, not the attack), & unless feds can prove they knew about the attack, they’ll probably walk but may provide info on others 8/

Then you go after the lower level leaders like Alex Jones, Ali Alexander, Roger Stone, Bannon. Then on to the big dogs like members of congress and the white house. So it seems perhaps they aren’t there yet, and yes, I am worried about how long that is taking 9/

As to the investigation into the soft coup between the DoJ and Donald: Garland has already testified that he is waiting for the DoJ Inspector General recommendation on what to do with that, and DoJ IG has been investigating since 1/25. I AM worried that’s taking so long 10/

Finally, when trying to keep a massive probe like this secret, you don’t call the big guns in until you’re ready for the investigation to start leaking because people like Bannon, Clark, Stone, etc would tell the public they’d been dragged before a grand jury 11/

So if I were Garland or the DCUSA, I would either not question them or wait until the VERY last minute to help protect the integrity of the probe & to give prosecutors the best chance at winning their cases. I mean, what good does it do to put Bannon in front of a grand jury? 12/

So, I’m not worried about NY, I know about GA, I am getting worried about the speed of the coup and the insurrection probes, but I understand they’re waiting for the IG & working from the bottom up respectively 13/

I agree that we don’t have the luxury of time, but as @RepAdamSchiff himself wrote in “Midnight in Washington”, we also don’t have the luxury of despair. END