Nope, unless you believe that Trump should NOT be held accountable. How would these machinations dissuade Merrick Garland, especially after J6C?

You're right; they wouldn't. It isn't even hard to fathom how Trump is easily included in an indictment. This is obviously a conspiracy committed by multiple persons. If you believe the Department of Justice is going to charge no one at all in Trump's circle of perpetrators, then Trump escapes charges. If you've been paying attention, you already know the Department of Justice has gotten multiple convictions and guilty pleas of seditious conspiracy and multiple convictions and guilty pleas of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.

This one isn't rocket science. White House counsel already testified that he advised John Eastman to get a good criminal defense attorney; that is good advice for all of them who will likely be charged together because a grand jury isn't likely to charge the obvious co-conspirators while declining to charge Trump right alongside them when he was as directly involved as they were.

prosecutor "A" brings charges

Grand juries of citizens of America are assembled to decide whether or not charges are warranted. It's actually a requirement outlined in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

rabid house members dig through A's past, find a kindergarten superhero drawing that shows bias against supervillains (obviously they meant donald specifically)

Funny. Would GOP congresspersons stoop to the level of doing this to American citizens serving on grand juries? Oh, I wouldn't put it past them, but federal grand jury proceedings are secret in accordance with Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Who would they have to attack?

MAGA caucus screams to high heavens about A's witch hunt, demands a new prosecutor be appointed. Fox news hangs on every syllable.

Grand juries don't generally indict without some kind of evidence.

DOJ following protocol refers the demand to OIG, who does their due diligence and finds no apparent bias.

No way in hell does the DOJ override the indictment of an empaneled grand jury of American citizens over the pathetic outbursts of biased members of a political Party.

MAGA caucus finds something in OIG investigators' pasts, insists it's a conspiracy and a cover-up by the deep state, launch massive committee investigation into each and every prosecutor, investigator and judge, as well as all their immediate family members and pets, spin any attempt to move forward as obstruction of THEIR investigation.

What you've outlined here is comical obstruction of justice by congresspersons that would be laughed out of most (operative word there) any Court in America and might actually warrant prosecution against the congressional perpetrators. Grand juries of American citizens make these decisions... not prosecutors.

How would a divided Republican House go about delaying Trump’s day in court — even if they were unified in wanting to defend Trump?

Keep in mind that multiple of Trump's companies have already had their day in criminal court and Trump Organization is now a criminal entity having been found guilty on all counts... 17 of them. Trump himself is already being sued in multiple jurisdictions in America and there isn't a dang thing Congress can actually to delay the multitude of cases against him in either federal or state courts and whether criminal or civil. We have separate branches of government for a reason.

Not a sure thing. Although no longer president, Donald actually does still arguably represent a quarter of our voting population, and a GOP house has the ability to delay indictments indefinitely by investigating the DOJ, FBI, etc.

No problem there since any investigation of the DOJ would naturally include the investigation of Jeffrey Clark et alia who were knee deep in Trump's attempt to use the Department Justice to keep himself in power when he knew the election had been certified by the states and he didn't have the electors to remain in office. I am sure Democrats would take full advantage of that opportunity; bring it. :)

Nope, unless you believe that Trump should NOT be held accountable. How would these machinations dissuade Merrick Garland, especially after J6C?

The other thing is half the GQP wants to be rid of Trump. I know, I know, not a backbone to be found amongst this crowd. But I think dumping Trump and indicting Trump won’t happen until each happens. But when the first repudiation occurs many will follow. Likewise, the first indictment will open the flood gates.

prosecutor "A" brings charges

rabid house members dig through A's past, find a kindergarten superhero drawing that shows bias against supervillains (obviously they meant donald specifically)

MAGA caucus screams to high heavens about A's witch hunt, demands a new prosecutor be appointed. Fox news hangs on every syllable.

DOJ following protocol refers the demand to OIG, who does their due diligence and finds no apparent bias.

MAGA caucus finds something in OIG investigators' pasts, insists it's a conspiracy and a cover-up by the deep state, launch massive committee investigation into each and every prosecutor, investigator and judge, as well as all their immediate family members and pets, spin any attempt to move forward as obstruction of THEIR investigation.

lather, rinse, repeat

How would a divided Republican House go about delaying Trump’s day in court — even if they were unified in wanting to defend Trump?

…or anybody else?

The casualties from January 6th would not agree. Trump is a clear and present danger to America and cannot be allowed to try to start a 2nd Civil War 2.0.

Given a reasonable amount of time passage, Kinzinger could easily be elected president.

He combines the Dad-joke concept in the best possible way, the beer-with-W concept, and he's Captain America level good-looking. I'm a happily married hetero male, but dang, the dude is hot.

Politically, that's a really tough combo to beat.

Don't get me wrong, his politics aren't any better than Liz Cheney's or most any other House Republican, but he's inured himself from any left-wing version of a Swift-Boat attack. We'd have to attack him solely on politics. If he out-waits a right-wing attack of that type, he's a Prez if he wants it.

This was especially well organized and presented. Basically, to use an old phrase, that person did not make the mistake of underestimating the stupidity of the American people.