The question remains whether GOP influenced the delay within the DoJ and FBI considering the previous administration’s manipulation of those agencies. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation. The bottom-up approach that had dominated nearly a year of the government’s time had not yielded any significant connection to Trump’s orbit. x Great journalism has shown Garland and Monaco well-intentioned but profoundly unwise in slow-walking the investigation into Trump and those around him. As a result, more than a year passed before federal prosecutors and FBI agents embarked on a formal investigation into nonviolent efforts within Trump’s orbit to steal the 2020 election.

Source: Washington Post June 19, 2023 21:34 UTC