{"id":513059,"date":"2022-11-20T20:52:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/special-counsel-shows-democrats-want-to-string-along-trump\/"},"modified":"2022-11-20T20:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:52:41","slug":"special-counsel-shows-democrats-want-to-string-along-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/special-counsel-shows-democrats-want-to-string-along-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"#Special counsel shows Democrats want to string along Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ad71250649\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ad71250649\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/special-counsel-shows-democrats-want-to-string-along-trump\/#%E2%80%9CSpecial_counsel_shows_Democrats_want_to_string_along_Trump%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Special counsel shows Democrats want to string along Trump&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CSpecial_counsel_shows_Democrats_want_to_string_along_Trump%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Special counsel shows Democrats want to string along Trump&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s life is about to get very unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of interesting aspects of Biden Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Merrick Garland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment of veteran prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to take over the Trump investigations \u2013 and we have to say \u201cinvestigations,\u201d plural, because there are several (as I\u2019ve detailed <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/11\/the-trump-investigations-mount\/\">here<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For starters, there is the illusion of independence. By the appointment, Garland is trying to convince the public that the Biden administration has disconnected itself from probes of President Biden\u2019s most notable political rival. We\u2019re to believe that it is Smith, not Garland and the Justice Department, who are driving the train.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not true. As a matter of constitutional law, criminal investigation and prosecution are exclusively executive functions, and Article II vests all executive power in the president. All prosecutors who wield federal investigative and charging authority, whether they are special counsels or ordinary assistant US attorneys, answer to the attorney general and, ultimately, the president.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, though federal regulations imbue a special counsel with the patina of detachment from DOJ\u2019s regular chain of command, they make clear that the Attorney General is still in charge. Smith will report to Garland.\u00a0And Garland reports to President Biden. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-smith-221120-01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Jack Smith.\" class=\"wp-image-24725613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-smith-221120-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-smith-221120-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-smith-221120-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jack Smith was appointed as special counsel to take over the Trump investigations.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Justice Department\/Handout via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In saying this, I am not accusing Biden of wrongdoing. I am just asserting remorseless facts \u2013 the kind that don\u2019t care about appearances. Being president means you can run but you can\u2019t hide. Biden has two choices: he can order that Trump not be investigated, or he can empower prosecutors to investigate Trump. Either choice carries potential political costs, but he can\u2019t escape the need to make the choice.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting aspect of the special counsel appointment is its highly unusual circumstances. Usually in this sort of political context, a special counsel is named because it would otherwise look like the incumbent administration (Democratic, in this case) was harassing a political opponent (here, a Republican) in order to prevent the latter from competing for public office. In this nearly unfathomable situation, though, Democrats <em>want<\/em> Trump to run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats calculate (correctly, in my view) that Trump cannot win a national election but could win the GOP nomination. I think it will become increasingly obvious, as Trump\u2019s troubles mount, that he won\u2019t be the eventual Republican nominee. Nevertheless, his status as a former president and his bull-in-a-china-shop presence in the campaign primaries stand to damage other GOP candidates, who otherwise stand a good chance of beating Biden in November 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/merrick-garland-221120-05.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Merrick Garland.\" class=\"wp-image-24725608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/merrick-garland-221120-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/merrick-garland-221120-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/merrick-garland-221120-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jack Smith will report to AG Merrick Garland.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump will claim the special counsel has been named because Biden knows that Trump is the favorite and needs to try to knock him out of the race. Don\u2019t believe it. The truth is that Biden figures Trump, who is deeply unpopular outside his narrowing political base, may be the only Republican of stature that Biden can beat.<\/p>\n<p>As long as he is a viable GOP candidate, Democrats want Trump in the contest. But they want him wounded by increasing scandal, and then prosecuted the moment he is no longer politically viable. It is now Smith\u2019s job to do the wounding and prosecuting.<\/p>\n<p>Last point: the special counsel \u2013 the latest iteration of what was known as a \u201cspecial prosecutor\u201d during Watergate and an \u201cindependent counsel\u201d in the Bill Clinton era \u2013 is perhaps the most pernicious of government institutions . . . and that\u2019s saying something.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/joe-biden-221120-07.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Joe Biden.\" class=\"wp-image-24725616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/joe-biden-221120-07.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/joe-biden-221120-07.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/joe-biden-221120-07.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden must weigh the potential political costs of deciding to investigate or not investigate the former president.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unlike all other prosecutors, a special counsel does not have to make reasonable judgments about how much of his office\u2019s resources can be devoted to any one case at the expense of others. A special counsel has one job: investigate a single target (or set of targets). Virtually bottomless resources dedicated to the pursuit of just one case. To justify the expense of their investigations, special prosecutors are motivated to find something \u2013 <em>anything<\/em> \u2013 to indict.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, that means special counsels take a long time and perform what is aptly called a <em>probe<\/em> \u2013 an extraordinarily intrusive inquiry, scouring every nook and cranny of the target\u2019s life. And that happens even when the target is looking at just one investigation. Again, Trump is facing several: the January 6 case, the Mar-a-Lago documents case, and recently emerging investigations of whether the former president tried to sic the IRS on political opponents, and whether the federal securities laws were violated by the proposed merger by which he hopes to capitalize his new media venture \u2013 Trump Media, the host of Trump Social, a wannabe <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> that Trump has made his main communications platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And for all we know, there are likely to be new investigations. Trump is behaving erratically and has a history of conduct that borders on obstruction (see, e.g., the retention of highly classified intelligence at Mar-a-Lago and subsequent efforts to conceal the breadth of it). This is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s probe is going to take months if not more, and put Donald Trump through several ringers. Democrats wouldn\u2019t want it any other way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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There are a number of interesting aspects of Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s appointment of veteran prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to take over the Trump investigations \u2013 and we have to say \u201cinvestigations,\u201d plural, because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/trump-investigation-comp-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[135891,71391,4941,83543],"class_list":["post-513059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-20-22","tag-department-of-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-merrick-garland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}