NBC News: “A charging decision may be looming as the Mar-a-Lago investigation enters what appears to be a decisive phase. People familiar with the deliberations of Attorney General Merrick Garland and his top aides say the AG does not believe it’s his job to consider the political or social ramifications of indicting a former president, including the potential for violent backlash.”
“The main factors in his decision, these people say, are whether the facts and the law support a successful prosecution — and whether anyone else who had done what Trump is accused of doing would have been prosecuted.”
Said former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann: “It would be entirely outside of the rule of law to not indict him. The whole point is to treat people similarly. And when you look at past cases, it compels that you have to bring a case.”
