Not wanting to appear partisan, the Justice Department moved slowly and took a bottom-up approach to January 6.
Former President Donald Trump greets supporters at Versailles Restaurant and Bakery in Little Havana after his appearance at the Miami federal courthouse, on June 13, 2023.showcases how slowly and cautiously senior leaders at the Department of Justice and the FBI moved to open up an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s actions during his final weeks in office as he attempted to usurp the democratic process by overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Although the reasons behind the snail’s pace, bottom-up approach may appear to some to be appropriately nonpartisan, they may have also hindered the investigation in the long-run, allowing evidence that could have helped the probe to potentially be destroyed. It took almost a year for the inquiry into Trump’s actions, prior to and on January 6, 2021, to be opened at the department, according toreporting. Even then, the investigation didn’t put as strong a focus on the former president as it could or should have, former officials told the publication.
Trump decisively lost the 2020 race to President Joe Biden, but has falsely claimed ever since that election fraud was responsible for the outcome. Trump peddled those claims for months after his loss, demanding, without rational or legal justification, that Congress disregard the results of the election and keep him in office for another term.
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