One MSNBC political analyst's frustrations boiled over on Thursday about the slow pace of investigations into former President Donald Trump and his associates.
"I'm sure if we keep this up, eventually we'll get him for like a parking ticket, or maybe we'll find out he didn't curb his children or something," the Nation's Elie Mystal said, reacting to reports that the Manhattan district attorney has convened a second grand jury as part of an investigation into the Trump Organization.
"The problem that we keep running into — I think the problem we saw with the first grand jury — is that they had (Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer) Alan Weisselberg dead to rights ... and he didn't flip," he said. "Alan Weisselberg so far is willing to take all the weight for the dirt that the Trump Organization did, and as long Trump keeps finding these people who are willing to go to jail for him, or at least to risk going to jail for him, it's starting to get hard for me to see when justice is done. At the end of the day, if we don't get one of these cronies to tell the truth, what actually happens?"
Nevertheless, Mystal rejected any suggestion that it's "time to move on."
"You have to keep trying," he said. "You have to keep pushing the rock up the hill. It might roll back down on you every time, but you have to keep trying to hold these people accountable. Not trying to hold them accountable in the years from like 1980 to 2015 is how we got Trump in the first place. I'm just waiting for the indication that one of these cronies is weak and is wavering and is willing to tell the truth to investigators."
Mystal added that his frustrations stem not only from the New York investigations, but also from Washington, where he accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of "slow-walking a bunch of stuff."
"It's been two weeks since (Trump adviser) Steve Bannon ignored Congress, and we still haven't seen any charges for him," Mystal said. "The wheels of justice turn slowly and there are good reasons for it to turn slowly. Prosecutors don't make charges that they don't think will stick, and there is a good reason for them to do that. Pretty much the only thing worse than not charging Trump would be charging him and then having him walk away scot-free as if he was being tried in the Senate again. There are good reasons for this to take a long time. I just keep waiting for the bit of news that suggests that the pieces on the board have moved in some way."
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