For no justifiable reason that we can discern, it has taken seven long months for the real momentum to build into what is now a strong, uniform push for a criminal investigation of Trump’s post election activities. Somehow, the FBI ended investigating Hillary, quite publicly, and we haven’t heard a word about an FBI-DOJ push toward a Trump indictment.

Below, George Conway uses the word “investigation” because it’s the appropriate initial process but it is as close to a formality as one can get in this sort of instance where we know what was said by who and to whom, we know the elements of the crime and Trump’s actions and intentions, the mens rea  of the crime. Trump called DOJ and told them to put out a letter saying there was fraud in the election. Period.

There’s the crime. And why it’s taken this long for the media to now be awash with demands might be… only because DOJ didn’t begin right from the gate. But this is unsustainable and Conway knows it better than near anyone. He appeared on CNN this morning:

“If Donald Trump had directed or tried to coerce acting attorney general Rosen to walking down Pennsylvania Avenue with a ‘Trump 2020’ flag, that would have been criminal,” he said. “Here, this was much worse. He was attempting to coerce the Department of Justice, coerce Rosen into engaging in what was a purely political act, precisely because they had told the president there was no interest of the United States in this, that there was no illegality, there was no law enforcement function performed by the Justice Department, and then he, then Donald Trump went on to basically say, just say it, just say it — make this statement.”

That was all, as you point out, just for political purposes to, as has been pointed out, was for political purposes to influence the political branches, the congress to overturn the election, and to try to influence what the states were doing,” Conway added. “That again, a purely political act, coerced by the president of the United States, who, by the way, as these reports made clear, was basically threatening Rosen with removal and substitution by Jeffrey Clark, the guy who was actually trying to — who was basically conspiring with the president to overturn the election. That’s coercion, fits like a glove. I know there’s an inspector general investigation, but they should begin a criminal investigation because there’s predication for such an investigation.”

There you have it. Nothing more to be said except for the fact that while momentum is now really growing, Merrick Garland is sapping some confidence in DOJ right now. So far – and it’s nowhere near over – he’s been disappointing.

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