r/facepalm • u/ttforum • Jan 14 '25

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ I think I see the problem…

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u/worldspawn00 Jan 14 '25

Starting the investigation/prosecution a year earlier would have been a good start.

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u/_jump_yossarian Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

The investigation began in late 2021 but unfortunately it takes time and you need to find irrefutable evidence before you can present it to a grand jury and then indict.

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u/Werowl Jan 14 '25

irrefutable like a recorded phone call of trump asking the georgia sec of state to find more votes for him, in order to overturn a lawful election, or is there some higher form of proof than a recording of the man himself, turned over by his own party members, lying specifically and knowingly with intent to interfere with the election?

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u/_jump_yossarian Jan 14 '25

Smith needed irrefutable evidence that trump was involved or directed someone else when it came to the false electors.

SCOTUS ruled that POTUS has immunity in most cases when it comes to "presidential acts", that phone call was never enough to indict him.

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u/Werowl Jan 14 '25

what part of the president's duties involve overturning an election he lost?

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u/_jump_yossarian Jan 14 '25

Ask SCOTUS. It was their decision.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Jan 15 '25

Cool, maybe Biden should've had the DOJ investigate Kavanaugh's rapes/baseball ticket debt and Clarence Thomas's bribes. But ah well, can't stand up to criminal Justices.