How Trump’s 'enormous' win could tarnish Merrick Garland’s legacy
Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin and CNN Republican strategist Ana Navarro pointed to Attorney General Merrick Garland's leadership after special counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to dismiss Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case.
Donald Trump's ability to avoid accountability will likely tarnish the attorney general's legacy, Toobin and Navarro emphasized.
"I also think we need to take a look at how long it took Merrick Garland to appoint Jack Smith," said Navarro. “It took him, what, almost two years to get this done. But for that, it could have been a very different result today.”
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"This case could have gone to trial," Toobin added.
"If this case had been brought promptly, the delay in naming Jack Smith at all and in the whole investigation at the higher level, is something that, you know, is going to be an important legacy of this administration."
Toobin noted that had prosecutors successfully secured a conviction against Trump in the Jan. 6 case, or the Mar-a-Lago classified documents action, he would have been facing 'very long prison terms.'"
The ex-prosecutor then added, "The magnitude of Trump's victory here is so enormous."
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