President-elect Biden wary of Trump-focused investigations, sources say

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44. Martyr

There are practical political reasons to avoid a revenge war with Trump admin figures.

1st, it gives them a national stage to posture and cry on. This is a winner for them.
2nd, it is unlikely to succeed. There are Trumpers everywhere & they'll be in the jury pools.
3rd, it's a huge distraction
4th, it's against Mr Biden's stated objective of bringing us together. That isn't going to be easy.

Let the states work over Mr Trump & his immediates for alleged financial misdeeds. That will keep him busy & no one in Tennessee gives a rat's tail whether he paid his taxes or not. If there's a real problem there, it will probably drain him dry and there might even be criminal charges (unlikely, but who knows). Slow-roll the IRS too, if that's possible. Keep Mr Trump and his family off the national stage.

Let's have a real counter intelligence investigation, tho, & find out what all this smoke about Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, China is really about. Is there any there there? This might take a while. I'm guessing but I think this might follow whatever comes from some of the state investigations of financial misdeeds. Allow yourself to be forced into a money laundering investigation if that's what appears. Or maybe Scotland's if that ever gets off the ground. Don't rush.

On the other hand, given the nature of the people in the Trump admin & some of the known history, there's probably some smoking grift in the "quiet" agencies. Look into this. If there's a slam-dunk crime in here, it would be politically savvy to make an example out of whoever is doing this. Everyone wins.

On the 3rd hand, if Mr Trump does pardon himself & everybody else, don't worry. He can't list all the possible everybodys, he loses some of his 5th amendment protections, & he probably cannot pardon himself for future crimes (like perjury).