Doyle McManus: Prosecute Trump? Merrick Garland is investigating aggressively but prosecuting cautiously
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Jul 11, 2022
3 minutes
The House committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurgency, whose hearings resume this week, has produced impressive evidence that could allow prosecutors to argue that former President Donald Trump committed crimes as he tried to overturn the 2020 election.
Thanks to the hearings, we now know more clearly that Trump tried to bully Vice President Mike Pence into blocking Congress' count of electoral votes, tried to bully Justice Department officials into declaring the election fraudulent even though they
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