Former Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Justice Department is getting “back on track” with the impending indictment of former President Donald J. Trump on charges related to the chaos at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“Obama’s Wingman” appeared on Friday’s edition of “Deadline: White House” on MSNBC where he expressed happiness that the DOJ has overcome a sluggish start and has finally dispensed with the niceties and gotten about with the business of eliminating the current 2024 GOP frontrunner as a threat to President Joe Biden in next year’s election.
“I think the Justice Department was a little late in ramping up its investigation, the inquiry with regard to those people at the top of this whole, this whole conspiracy,” Holder told host Nicolle Wallace.
(Video: MSNBC)
“They’ve done and continue to do a great job with regard to the foot soldiers who were there on January the sixth, and I remember early on hearing people say ‘Well this is gonna to be a typical investigation, we’ll start from the bottom and we’ll work our way to the top,'” he said. “I was thinking ‘boy, there’s a lot of people which you’re gonna have to get through in order to figure out what’s going on at the top’ and my initial thought was you probably want to run these things in parallel.”
Holder continued, “Alright, the foot soldiers are there, we’ll try to identify them, we’ll hold them responsible, but then who put those people in place? Who encouraged those people to come to Washington on January the sixth, and what is all of that about. And so having a parallel investigation going at the same time I think would have made sense.”
“Having said that, I think that with Jack Smith’s appointment and the speed with which he’s apparently been moving, I think the Justice Department has gotten back on track,” he said. “There was lost, you know, some time, that now puts this potential investigation, this ongoing investigation right in the middle of or close to an electable determination that the American people have to make as to who the next president of the United States is gonna be and who Republicans have to decide is gonna be their nominee.”
Trump, who now faces his most serious legal problem yet with the looming indictment that will put him in front of a Washington, D.C. judge with a jury pool drawn from an area that is extremely hostile toward him, has continued to take shots at the vindictive prosecutor who is on the verge being elevated to sainthood by Democrats if he is successful in the effort to the ex-POTUS behind bars for the rest of his life.
“Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, send a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment,” Trump wrote in a statement announcing that he has received a target letter from AG Merrick Garland’s hand-picked legal hatchetman.
“These are strong folks. They’re used to being criticized, but the unfounded level of criticism that we see here are really unprecedented,” Holder said of Trump’s continued jabbing of Smith. “I hope that people that are right-minded will come to the defense of the people in the Bureau, at the Justice Department.”
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