Garland should have started his Jan 6 criminal investigations of Trump on 20 Jan 2021, as soon as Joe Biden entered office. Instead, Garland wasted over 2 years prosecuting all of the imbecile MAGA bumpkins who attacked the Capitol on Jan 6.
Garland would have done absolutely nothing to prosecute Trump if it had not been for the House Jan 6 Committee putting pressure on Garland during the summer of 2022.
History is going to crucify both Merrick Garland and Joe Biden for letting Trump get away with this. It is like Jefferson Davis being allowed to run for President in 1868, as if nothing had ever happened. Biden campaigned in 2020 and 2022 and 2024 talking about what a threat to democracy Trump was....and then did nothing about it.
Biden and Garland actually gave Trump legitimacy to run for president, by failing to take action immediately in 2021. President Bernie Sanders would have thrown Trump's ass in jail in 2021 or 2022 and permanently lost the key.
Don't take my word for it...listen to Elie Mystal on this podcast with Michael Steel, starting at about 49:20.
The bad guys have won. It's a very bitter pill to swallow.