You raise some interesting hypotheticals. I don’t think that Barr would have allowed Trump to be indicted, regardless, but let’s talk about Garland. If your beef with him is that he didn’t appoint Smith on day one or otherwise get a quicker indictment, what would a quicker indictment have done?
A quicker indictment would have meant a quicker trial, a quicker verdict, and a quicker imprisonment. Of course, Trump wouldn't have hanged himself in prison like Epstein did, because he has no neck.
“No neck.” 🤣 But the sad thing is, an earlier indictment would have changed nothing. Roberts crafted the immunity ruling to produce endless appeals and give SCOTUS total authority over whether the case ever even went to trial. Garland couldn’t have done a thing to change that. It was down to SCOTUS.