This 5 minute stretch of an Episode of Pod Save America between PSA host Dan Pfeiffer and Melissa Murray of the Strict Scrutiny podcast have some interesting points made of Merrick Garland and others were not able to meet the moment in history regarding Trump and the January 6 2021 insurrection. Attorney General waited after almost two years before appointing Special Counsel Jack Smith and had taken a bottom up approach in prosecuting offenders for January 6, 2026 attack on the U.S. Capitol which essentially saving the biggest offender(presumably Donald Trump). Mistakenly thinking Trump would fade into history like most defeated in a presidential election usually do. This as we now know was a huge political miscalculation I think part of the miscalculation was that the institutions themselves would hold on their own. This I think doesn't count that the institutions are only as strong as the people in them and how they are used.
Another example of of expecting institutions to defend themselves is the recent action by those in the media. It even started before the election when owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos owner of Amazon, nixing a Kamala Harris endorsement shortly before election day which was and essentially an endorsement of Donald Trump. Now recently, along with Meta/Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg, each contributing $1 million dollars each to Trump's Inauguration. We also saw Joe and Mika of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" meet and kiss the ring at Mar a Lago, then they try and defend it. Just breaking recently was a $15 million settlement(and apology by "Meet the Press host George Stephanopolus) by ABC News for alleged defamation. If we were expecting our heroes to be in the corporate media you're going to be tremendously disappointed. They're job is to defend shareholders, profits but not the U.S. Constitution.
The capitulation by ABC News sets an awful precedent and will certainly invite more of the same. This will certainly embolden Trump to intimidate the news media and their owners who only interest is their bottom line and not journalism.
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