08-02-2023, 11:53 AM
Re: Trump telling his acolytes “Why did they wait two and a half years?”
We may have thought he should have been arrested on Jan 6, 2021, but 1) investigations take time (although Smith has shown how fast things can move when you have real crimes to investigate which were essentially committed in public view)…
…and 2), this is unprecedented in our country, and I bet plenty of non-Trump folks would have preferred not to have to go this route. That’s entirely on Trump, but I wonder if he had just faded away whether it would have come to this. I’m inclined to think it wouldn’t have, but for the highly classified documents he knowingly kept and waved around to randos (or worse) which forced the issue.
Which again, was entirely on Trump. He is psychologically unable to shut up and go away, even when it’s in his own best interests.
We may have thought he should have been arrested on Jan 6, 2021, but 1) investigations take time (although Smith has shown how fast things can move when you have real crimes to investigate which were essentially committed in public view)…
…and 2), this is unprecedented in our country, and I bet plenty of non-Trump folks would have preferred not to have to go this route. That’s entirely on Trump, but I wonder if he had just faded away whether it would have come to this. I’m inclined to think it wouldn’t have, but for the highly classified documents he knowingly kept and waved around to randos (or worse) which forced the issue.
Which again, was entirely on Trump. He is psychologically unable to shut up and go away, even when it’s in his own best interests.