Trump Will Not Be Indicted By DOJ Before The Next Election

[gab13by13]

That was the opinion today from Tim Heaphy, former lead investigator of the J6 select committee who was a Nicolle Wallace guest.

I believe that he assumes that DOJ will consider the primaries to be election season when DOJ doesn't interfere. It makes sense to me, if Trump is on the Jan. 23rd ballot in Iowa I can't see DOJ indicting Trump on Jan. 22nd.

GOTV.

[Skittles]

1. Trump should NOT BE ALLOWED FOR "PRESIDENT" AGAIN

SO NO, IT MAKES ZERO FUCKING SENSE TO ME

[Meadowoak]

2. +1

[gab13by13]

3. To be clearer

what makes sense to me are statements from Merrick Garland that he will not be partisan. I have asked this question 11 times, who is Merrick Garland speaking to when he says he will not be partisan? Only members of 1 political party were complicit in the insurrection.

[pnwmom]

23. He's using the word partisan in a different sense than you are. He's saying that he will apply

the facts to the law without regard to the political party of the do-er.

[Effete Snob]

4. "Allowed" by whom?

Who is in charge of who gets to run for president?

[Bucky]

10. Theoretically us

I mean, the millionaires and billionaires still bankroll who ever they want. But at least for the time being the candidates still need to get our votes.

If we want a democracy in this country, apparently we're gonna have to earn it

[Zeitghost]

20. We don't have much control over who runs

We can effect who wins.

[Autumn]

13. The constitution. Anyone who meets the criteria can run for office.

[SoCalDavidS]

5. DOJ Is Never Gonna Indict Teflon Man

That's the reality.

[onecaliberal]

8. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

The next time he will be successful.

[Jarqui]

6. Stupid is as stupid does ...nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Wrong.

The DOJ’s rules on election season moratorium for investigations is clear, and they do not apply to primaries.

A sitting congressman running for re-election was indicted in late August 2018, just over two months before the midterms.

[gab13by13]

14. Was the AG an institutionalist?

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. You are clinging to meaningless terms

Garland made a public statement reaffirming the memo from Barr that guides the DOJ investigations of presidents and candidates.

No matter how many times you post it, there is no evidence to support your claim that all DOJ investigations into Trump will be suspended once the primaries begin. Even if it were true, it is quite possible that the investigations will have concluded, indictments issued, and trial proceedings begun before the first primary votes are cast.

Trials and court proceedings election season are not suspended or regulated in any way.

[Pathwalker]

9. You ned to tell the Special Counsel, so he can pack up and go home.

After all. this one person's opinion is the final word - case closed. Right?

[gab13by13]

12. A person who is a lot smarter than me.

[Autumn]

11. I think for some stupid reason the feeling is that you can't indict or do anything in an election

season so he's not going to be indicted. Looks like the dry run was successful.

[Kingofalldems]

15. Every single day.

[iemanja]

16. If true

That means he will never be held accountable. The problem with all this delay is it means nothing will come of the investigation.

[chicoescuela]

17. It ain't ever going to happen. Katie bar the door!

[mcar]

18. I don't believe him

[bigtree]

22. I don't believe the op.

...no link, no quote.

Just word salad.

[bigtree]

21. That's not what Heaphy said yesterday. Not at all. Post the quote. You apparently have access to it.

Last edited Wed Mar 8, 2023, 11:57 PM - Edit history (1)

...excerpt from Wednesday's MSNBC interview of Tim Heaphy, who was the lead investigator for the House Jan. 6 committee. He weighed in on the proper timeline for a potential Donald Trump prosecution, and more.

Tim Heaphy:

I think DOJ is mindful of the traditional department policy that you don’t want to bring charges that may impact an election and therefore they need to be brought well in advance of the 2024 election if they are implicating a candidate for president.

So I expect it sometime in the next four to six months. Ideally, they bring a case sometime this spring or summer. If it goes into the fall, then you’re starting to be into primary season and getting closer to an election — and of course, once a charge is brought, there’s a lot that happens before the trial and the matter is adjudicated.

So they need to bring it soon enough for that ideally to run its course well before the 2024 election. And look, what they’re doing now, it really seems like the end stage because of the subpoena to former Vice President [Mike Pence], to the president’s daughter and son-in-law. They’re pretty close now, it seems to me, to the most important witnesses, so I think that they are likely close to the end.

...I have learned over the years: You just really can’t predict what happens with criminal cases, with trials. Sometimes they go really slowly. Sometimes they go fast. There are curveballs that happen all the time. I don’t know. I mean, you’re right. The standard here would be (a Trump trial) would take a year or so. There will be contested pretrial motions type issues. But I won’t be surprised if it goes faster.

read more: https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/tucker-carlson-fox-news-tim-heaphy-interview-rcna73985...


...quote, or maybe it didn't happen the way you represented it.

[sheshe2]

25. +1

[fightforfreedom]

27. Thank you for your post.

The OP was clearly misleading.

[RockRaven]

26. But a bunch of justice-porn edging-kinksters post the opposite every day on DU!!!

How can this possibly be true!?!

[Baltimike]

28. Trump will not be indicted at all...ever

They have slow walked this thing to death, and there is ALWAYS a next election.

Funny how they never said the same thing about Hillary.

[MayReasonRule]

29. My Line From Vegas Says All Bets Are Off!!

Time will tell, it always does.