Again, EmptyWheel has a great piece out this morning — carefully and thoroughly explaining in a very patiently rational way… why the calls by some on the left to use an independent counsel, since they believe US AG Merrick Garland is not directly moving quickly enough to get Tangerine on the January 6 lawlessness… are misguided.
Do read it all — but here’s the punchline:
“…If you believe that Trump’s actions played a central role in the insurrection — if you believe that the violent mob mobilized on January 6 was an important part of plans hatched at the Willard Hotel — then creating a separate investigation to investigate Trump does nothing but remove him from his liability in crimes already charged as sedition. That’s why calls to appoint a Special Counsel are so stupid. They treat Trump’s crimes as separate and distinct from those of the mob that he mobilized. There’s no reason, at this point, to do that (if Democrats were to lose in 2024, there might be)….”
Now you know. Onward.
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