Paul Campos runs down some reasons here.
I think there's another pretty compelling reason not to charge Trump with criminal charges.
A) How do you find an impartial jury?
B) How do you secure a unanimous verdict from a hypothetical jury?
C) If he's acquitted via a hung jury - most likely outcome - this will be treated as exoneration by Trumpists and therefore a political witch hunt by Hunter Biden's Laptop against our Lord and Savior Donald J. Trump.
As Jeremy Stahl notes in the original piece Campos links to, the threat of prosecution might be enough to keep him from running.
The problem with that is that Trumpism has extended beyond Trump. Greg Abbott spent a few weeks just brazenly breaking the law and nothing will happen to him. Ron DeSantis is violating civil rights and liberties on a daily basis.
Time for the DOJ to do their fucking job.
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