NBC’s Seth Meyers mourned on Thursday’s edition of Late Night that our “stupid system” has enabled Donald Trump to escape his legal difficulties and that there are those in the Democratic Party who think the reason why he won is because they are too far left.
Talking about the Republicans who are demanding the efforts to prosecute Trump now cease, Meyers lamented, “You'll probably get your way because the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity and the DOJ has a dumb policy about not prosecuting sitting presidents and it stinks. We have a stupid system that basically makes getting elected president a get out of jail free card. They're going to have to add one to Monopoly that says, ‘Run for president. Win, collect $200.’"
After a couple of news clips about the Justice Department starting the process of ending Jack Smith’s case against Trump, Meyers again lamented, “You know, not everything the Democrats did the last four years was great. But one thing you can't complain about was the deliberate pace with which Merrick Garland prosecuted Donald Trump. I mean, he dotted his I’s and crossed his T’s, then dotted his T’s and crossed his I’s. Then he crossed out his I’s and replaced them with T’s, then he crossed actual eyes and put dots on his T-shirt, and sure, at the end of four years, there's literally nothing to show for it. But is that what a Justice Department is even for, results? Or is it about the journey?”
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