A conversation on MSNBC included political experts who agreed that no one is coming to save the U.S. from Donald Trump. Only voters can.
Former lead investigator for the House Select Committee Tim Heaphy explained that the more time passes, the harder it will be for prosecutors to convict Trump because memories fade and public interest does too.
Host Nicolle Wallace complained that Trump's strategy has been a successful one because he is leading in national polls and he has managed to delay his trials.
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Heaphy lamented that the cases would have happened much sooner if the Justice Department had been smarter about the ordeal and had begun its own investigation more timely.
"I mean, you just put your finger on the entire enchilada," Wallace agreed. "The reluctance to examine crimes. Maybe it was so disorienting to catch crimes committed before our very eyes and to watch the criminal carry out those crimes on T.V. And then to watch him tweet at the criminals, 'We love you,' that it made people stop."
She said what she was trying to explain is that there needs to be an honest conversation for the next eight months about Trump and she fears he will escape consequences for his actions.
"There will most likely be zero legal accountability for Donald Trump and he's banking on that being a winning political strategy," Wallace continued. "Now the only people who have any agencies in this conversation at this point are the voters. And what Fani Willis went through — she's been doxed. Her kids have been doxed. Her ex-husband has been doxed and her personal information is ... there is no glory in actually trying to hold Trump accountable."
Still, she said, all they have tried to do is treat him the way any other American would be treated and it hasn't worked.
"I don't think it is healthy anymore, as a host of this program, and I'll speak humbly for my own hours to talk about legal accountabilities on the table. It probably isn't," Wallace complained. "And what will people who spent their lives and careers as prosecutors what will say to someone like Donald Trump, who won and did it and got out of accountability and got his get-out-of-jail-free card and he didn't even need a pocket pardon to do it."
She finished the segment by saying that one of many things that could matter is if some of the most credible observers from the former Trump administration will step forward.
Retired General Mark A. Milley and Retired General James N. Mattis have been willing to attack Trump for what they observed, but they haven't hit the campaign trail to talk to voters and answer questions.
"I constantly plead with the national security officials who saw, up close and personal, his lack of fitness," she said. "I plead for the generals, Mattis quit for cause, Milley put himself on the line. Your investigation revealed this quite clearly. [I want them] to get out there and tell the American people what they think. You 'see something, say something' became the duty of the American people after 9/11. If you believe that Jan. 6 was another attack on our democracy, you have a duty not just if you're a general but if you're a prosecutor."
She said she hoped there would be some soul-searching among some of the federal prosecutors who could step up and act.
"It is as much of their duty as anything they've asked to do," she said.
See the conversation in the video below or at the link here.
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