Posted on 10/31/2022 2:57:34 PM PDT by RandFan
Republican aides and strategists privately expect Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue an indictment of former President Trump within 60 to 90 days after Election Day, predicting the window for prosecuting Trump will close once the 2024 presidential campaign gains momentum.
Republican aides on Capitol Hill and veteran party strategists emphasize they don’t have any inside information on what Garland might do, but they say the attorney general is under heavy pressure from Democrats to act and the deadline for pursuing an indictment is fast approaching.
GOP aides also warn that an indictment of Trump by the Biden administration would further polarize the nation and likely strengthen Trump’s support from the Republican Party’s base as the former president and his allies would frame the Department of Justice’s prosecution as a political witch hunt.
“A couple of weeks after the election, I assume that Garland will indict Trump,” said one veteran Republican aide, expressing a sentiment shared by several other GOP aides and strategists.
A second Republican aide warned an indictment “could actually end up helping the [former] president politically.”
“People have been talking about splintering support and dampening enthusiasm among Republican voters for him. An indictment could actually galvanize and reunify Republicans around him,” the aide said, predicting the Republican backlash to an indictment would be stronger if Garland brings an indictment later in the 2024 election cycle.
“There’s a substantial risk in waiting,” the source added.
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Nothing political about that.
Other than indicting him because they hate him, what will be the ‘reason/crime’?
Well at least it will give Liz Cheney something to do
Well he did move those boxes of docs from one room to another at Mar a lago.
If republicans take over congress, there will be a crushing voice of dems screaming for DOJ to indict trump and destroy him before 2024....They are terrified of what comes in 2024,if Trump runs and the republicans in congress have slowed down or stopped the dems agenda for america.....
Phony January 6 episode ?
They’re going to get him for those extra scoops of ice cream. And for mean tweets, which will be deemed as insurrectionary.
All for being Orange?
“…predicting the window for prosecuting Trump will close once the 2024 presidential campaign gains momentum.”
No, the window closes when the new Congress gets sworn in and Democrats lose control of their kangaroo court committees.
Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime. What’s the crime du jour?
this kinda ties back to recent reports from WHGrampa (sic) & some stuff on X22 or AWK, imo
Hurry up and file fake charges before democracy is lost forever
And that’s before the RINOS sign on. Pence and McConnell are joyous for the day.
DOJ is controlled by the Executive branch.
Why do Americans seem to be so slow on the uptake about the criminal prosecution/persecution of political enemies by the Democrats ?
Blasphemy.
Needs to be reworded..
Bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCAN’Ts eagerly anticipate indictments after election.
I can safely say that Trump will not lose one iota of support should he be indicted and in fact, more will be won over to his side.
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