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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    Yep, the Republican investigator Robert Mueller had it all laid out in the second half of his report, and did everything he could to get Congress to formally investigate. Of course they refused. Trump’s financial crimes with Russian oligarchs are a slam dunk if anyone cares about fighting actual crime and delivering justice.

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      Trump’s financial crimes with Russian oligarchs are a slam dunk

      The boxes of classified documents at Mar a Lago is another one.

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      Mueller was incredibly limp-wristed throughout. He could have done much more but he’s a republican partisan hack.