Politico: “A common sentiment on the left is that Garland was too deferential to Trump after Joe Biden took office and failed to unleash the full might of the department on the former president for nearly two years.”
“But Smith’s report emphasized that the Justice Department was aggressively investigating leads related to Trump long before the special counsel’s tenure began.
Litigation tactics by Trump and his allies, Smith argued, were the key factors that slowed the process to a crawl.”