# DOJ/Jack Smith Investigation into Trump and Election Interference, January 6th Insurrection (Re-Indicted August 27, 2024) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 23, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455 "2022-11-23T20:14:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2684
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/2684 "2024-11-26T02:22:57Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Your weird dislike of Merrick Garland becomes weirder with every post. You have absolutely no basis to conclude as you have. > > Your distaste for Garland is based, as I understand it, on the naïve, erroneous notion that this case would or could have been tried but for Garland’s “delay” in investigating Trump. This conclusion is simply not supported by facts and demonstrates your sad lack of understanding about the law and how it works. And even if it had- so trump is convicted of a felony. he already was convicted of 34 of them, iirc. And there were shirts and signs “I am voting for the Felon”. Does anyone think 3 **5** felonies would be the tipping point? _"Oh that’s it- 34 felonies- that’s no problem, but 35! Nope, not voting for him!._ 🙄 I even asked this question in > [@Why did the Justice Department fail to protect us from Trump?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-justice-department-fail-to-protect-us-from-trump/1008944/1): > > Trump’s interference with certifying the 2020 election posed a grave threat to US stability. And his retention of classified documents seriously jeopardized US security. The Justice Department has had about three-and-a-half years in which to investigate and prosecute these two cases. Yet Trump remains free. Free to run for office again. Free to dismantle the rule of law if he wins another term. Even free to credibly threaten Justice Department officials with political persecution. Sure, if Tr… My final post- “Sure, all those are fine, but the real issue is the question I have asked and received no answer- **Again I ask 'what “protection” could the DoJ do to keep trump from running?** ” And it killed the thread. The Garland haters couldnt come up with a reply. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > Recalling how far Trump went in his first term to go after James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, But not much happened to them, Sure they were fired, but (for example) Strzok sued and got $1.2Million, not to mention a juicy book deal and a professorship. > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Googling claims that grand juries indict whomever the prosecutor wants them to (“indict a ham sandwich”), I’m not finding many examples of the grand jury failing to indict when the prosecution team unambiguously wants that indictment. You wouldnt. That’s not news. But I was on one, and remember the evidence is one sided. > **[Local cold case remains unsolved after grand jury fails to indict](https://www.lafourchegazette.com/local_news/local-cold-case-remains-unsolved-after-grand-jury-fails-to-indict/article_98bd3dbc-981c-11ef-8a70-2bee2e8f6fea.html)** > > A Lafourche Parish cold case murder remains unsolved this week after a grand jury failed to indict a pair of suspects who were previously arrested in the case. _A Lafourche Parish cold case murder remains unsolved this week after a grand jury failed to indict a pair of suspects who were previously arrested in the case._ and here > **[Lincoln County grand jury fails to indict man accused of killing pregnant...](https://www.wlbt.com/video/2024/08/28/lincoln-county-grand-jury-fails-indict-man-accused-killing-pregnant-woman-brother/)** and here > **[Another Grand Jury Fails to Indict Police Officer | GW Today | The George...](https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/another-grand-jury-fails-indict-police-officer)** > > George Washington University Law School Professor Roger Fairfax analyzes decision in death of Eric Garner. There has to be evidence enough to _indict_- not convict. Lower standard. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455)._