The Justice Department has reportedly been considering the appointment of a Special Counsel to complete investigations of former President Donald Trump ...
Let's put aside the highly complex crimes associated with Trump's role in fomenting the January 6 insurrection and plotting the attempted coup that preceded it. Even for the narrower case involving the willful retention of government documents shipped to Mar-a-Lago, it would take a small miracle for an indictment, even one filed this month, to go to trial before January 2024 and for any ensuing trial to be completed before February.
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