What I find really sad about the Garland/Smith investigation of Trump

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...is that so many people, especially prominent legal punditry, have couched every move by Garland as insufficient to their expectations, and it's turned a lot of people away from actually supporting the probe, our probe. Our administration that we voted into office.

If you convince yourself, for instance, as so many try to convince each and every day, that our Democratic administration's Justice Dept.'s prosecutor, who convicted the Oklahoma City bomber, won't prosecute Trump in the end, it precludes acknowledgement of what happens in between, more and more time passed reinforcing every negative fear.

But this investigation is our history happening in front of us. Every bit of it. It's not, as some would argue, a history of our government ignoring or refusing to confront the assaults on our democracy and on our system of elections. There's no evidence of that. Right in front of us, our nation's Justice Dept. is confronting every instigation of insurrection, from obstruction to sedition, and more.

No one at DOJ has shown any indication that they are slowwalking their investigation or refusing to follow the evidence where it leads, no matter the level of power, as Merrick Garland has promised repeatedly.

The fact that he hasn't just folded up his dual grand juries and rolled into court as fast as some may want or believe he could, means next to nothing if he produces the indictments and convictions that are indicated by what and who the DOJ is looking at.

The last refuge of this infectious din of second-guessing Garland is in skeptics' conviction that, after all of the efforts of the over 20 prosecutors he's hired; after the grand juries he's been feeding evidence and witnesses make their decisions; that the AG who was championed by most Democrats as Obama's choice for the Supreme Court just isn't interested in prosecuting assaults on our democracy, wherever he finds it.

That's a very weak straw.