• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    What do you propose Biden should have done then? What is the proper strategy he should have used to prevent Trump from getting back into power and throwing the nation to the dogs? Because what he did, failed, and now we’re all fucked. Is that preferable to a Biden autocracy?

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      Biden shouldn’t have done anything. His Attorney General should have been less sensitive about appearing biased, and started pursuing Trump’s prosecution earlier. The entire time the J6 committee was doing its investigation in the Senate…a special prosecutor like Jack Smith, should have been riding along, compiling evidence for an indictment. The instant the committee released its final report, that special prosecutor should have taken over the investigation and presented its evidence to a grand jury, as soon as possible.

      That would have given them an extra year to prosecute Trump in court. They were literally weeks away from putting him on trial, as it was. That extra year would have at least guaranteed his disqualification and most likely would have resulted in real prison time.

      But Merrick Garland blinked. He dragged his feet before assigning a special prosecutor to continue what the Senate committee had started. That was what they should have done differently. Biden should have had nothing to do with it. It’s the only way to make sure it was a legitimate trial. Any hint that Biden was involved, would have tainted the results and MAGA would have never accepted the outcome.

      It wouldn’t even have mattered if some of them still didn’t accept it. Enough of them would, that the movement would have been crippled. And any serious lawmaker in a position of authority would have an almost impossible time explaining away those results, without also discrediting themselves in the process.

      Nobody actually cares what the crackpots have to say about the 2020 election results, because there is literally no evidence to back up those claims. It would be the same thing if all the evidence proved that Trump was guilty of trying to commit a coup. We could all safely dismiss all of his remaining supporters as irrelevant, and move on. The sane ones would let it go, and the ones that couldn’t would sound insane.