dragging out

"Seven years of his life have been wasted, with proceedings dragging out, when it was plain all along that there was never any solid evidence," he told the BBC.

You don’t want those types of issues dragging out throughout the offseason and kind of being a theme going into the season.”

Earlier this month, he called for the government to set a deadline of next March to give the redress payments, after he accused it of dragging out the process.

Trump and his propagandists across the right-wing hate media echo chamber are also dragging out the old Cold War era-slur that Kamala Harris is a “communist.”

They accused the party of having a "pre-determined outcome" and "dragging out the process in order to block her from being a candidate at the election".