[newacct583]

Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but to spell it out: one good hypothesis might be that the victor in the election in question left office last week and doesn't control the justice department anymore. The same guy fired one FBI director and two attorneys general during the same term.

This case seems to be based on a handful of public tweets and some phone records that can be trivially subpoenaed. It's clearly been ready for years, and was likely suppressed internally.

[DannyB2]

Not sarcasm. Your reply was informative. I hadn't considered (although I should have) that the candidate in power would have interfered with the prosecution of this. Thanks.

[mc32]

A case like this doesn’t go from 0 to 100 in a week.

[function_seven]

I think that's parent's point. The case was stuck at "99" (like the old IE progress bar) internally, and only now has it been permitted to reach "100"

[dragonwriter]

The Complaint details the key connection being made between the pseudonym and the real person in a podcast appearance by a Congressional Candidate in 2018, and key FBI investigative activities occurring in October 2020, so it's not like it has gotten to 99 before Trump was in office and then Trump’s DOJ sat on it until Biden came into office.