Pundits who invested all of their me-me time in predicting no consequences for Meadows

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...I'll bet they're feeling especially burned tonight by the Meadows subpoena.

Now they're stuck pretending they still know something of substance about a probe so secret that they didn't even see this coming.

The howling coming from them tonight... "Garland should have done this or that sooner," they complain, like DOJ should play their media fantasy probe like a shoot-em-up video game, instead of the actual Justice Dept. prosecution that's unfolding with two separate grand juries, and now, Trump's top aides, and his VP being brought before them to see how their testimony squares the GJ testimony of their underlings and other evidence gathered.

"Nothing will happen to Trump's inner circle," until something happens in this investigation. Me, I follow the actual developments, not yoked to this undue cynicism that Garland and the over 20 handpicked prosecutors he's hired don't know as much about prosecuting Trump, or are any less concerned than the rest of us.

Now we can see that the wailing and whinging that Meadows had completely dodged accountability, just because DOJ declined a petty contempt charge last year, is a stunningly short-sighted assessment of this rapidly progressing investigation. It's been a standard federal probe where DOJ appears to have worked their way up to these principal witnesses or targets after putting everyone associated with them through the ringer first.

There's even the possibility, since it's Feb. and still no sign Meadows is challenging this subpoena issued last month, that he could be cooperating in some way, even under some sort of immunity. He's already turned over some documents, and could have just folded under threat of charges knowing full well his privilege claims are weak and vulnerable.

Anyone still set on arguing that DOJ hasn't done anything, or won't do anything to hold Trump accountable in the end (the mantra all last year, despite evidence contradicting that all throughout), have an increasingly uphill task.