Acting on a mix of principle and caution, Justice Department officials under former President Joe Biden made a series of decisions that significantly delayed and ultimately may have hampered the federal criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, according to a new book.

The slow decision-making at the top of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department affected two major probes into Trump after he lost the White House in 2020: whether he illegally possessed and obstructed the retrieval of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, and whether he conspired illegally to overturn the 2020 election.

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    Biden was never the man that could stop fascism, and boy did American Fascism use it’s time incubating. I didn’t think it’d be Trump again, thought it would have to be a new, more clever fascist but I was wrong. Biden was so milquetoast all it took was the same old fascist in a race where no on was worried about Covid anymore.