Who knew the secret to eating crow was to slow roast it?
Mmm… slow roasted crow.
I love me some crow!
Reminds me of that supposed Klingon maxim, Revenge is a dish best served cold. But Klingons don’t strike me as the sort to have such patience.
Ah, this, though, is warming my cockles!
Please, we’re trying to run a family message board here. 
Slow smoked crow. Yum.
This is good news, I can’t keep up a political argument against Garland anymore, but it ain’t over yet folks.
Word. The crow is delicious but this is America. Rich people don’t get convicted in America!
Sometimes they hang themselves in jail before it gets that far.
But in a country where Martha Stewart served time, anything is possible!
The Menendez brothers would beg to disagree.
Paging Michael Milken, paging Ivan Boesky…
I can. He deserves credit for his choice of Jack Smith, but waiting a couple years before taking Trump’s criminality seriously is still pretty unforgivable.
It does not matter one iota when charges were brought.
It would be spun as:
Too early - you did not do a proper investigation
Too late - what took you so long?
It’s binary. Heads he loses, tails he loses. No matter what, it’s bad. This is how things are right now, politically.
I’m a little torn on this. His delay was unnecessary. But further delays that don’t allow a trial before the election may not be his fault. And I want to enjoy what happens from this point on and not drown in water under the bridge,
I don’t want to derail or hijack the thread, but I had a semi-inebriated conversation with a fellow Trump-hater last night regarding the indictments. His theory was that Garland/Smith, Fani Willis, and Letitia James all waited a couple of years to investigate and charge Trump, choosing to wait until it became apparent that he was again running for president. IOW, if he had chosen not to run, they would have let things slide.
Makes some sense, I guess, but I was of the opinion that they all waited until they had rock-solid cases.
I hope that’s not true. These charges should have been brought regardless. The right wing narrative is that they are filed now just because he’s running (and winning!)
I heard a cable news guest today state that it was unusual to bring conspiracy charges, but only have one defendant.
My thought was: “What if the others flipped?”
Why do you think he waited? Do you think that the indictment is the start of building the case?
Because first you need to gather the evidence before you charge the crime.
And sometimes the evidence needs to come from people who decide to cooperate.
And sometimes convincing people to decide to cooperate takes time.
This point has been made many times on these boards, but let’s repeat it again: the feds win nearly every case they file, because they don’t file them until they know they can win.
I’m sitting down to a plate of crow myself, it’s still a bit gamey but at this point I don’t mind so much.
I think one valid point is that it took too long to get the indictments. We’re at a point at which Trump has a valid strategy to introduce enough delays that the trial date is after the election. Sure, maybe Garland was taking time to build the best case possible, but in doing so it gave Trump a strategy to wiggle out. It seems like a lot of things have to go just right for the trial to happen before the election. An unexpected event here and a legal shenanigan there could push the trial date out farther and farther. They should have been acting with more urgency along the way to ensure that they had the maximum amount of time between indictments and trial. It seemed like they were just walking the process along. They needed someone like Jack Smith driving this from the start.