As Trump issues DOJ directives, a double standard emerges

President Trump I have just released a top state prosecutor because he was not charged with two despised opponents, the Attorney General Letitia James and ex-fbi boss James Comey.

The fall of Erik Siebert, the US lawyer of the Eastern district in Virginia – and Trump’s own representative – came after he had not found enough evidence to burden James with mortgage fraud.

The President accused the dismissal of Siebert that he had been prescribed by two democratic senators – hardly secret – under the archaic “blue slip” demonstration that was to be abolished.

“Yes, I want to get him out,” said Trump after ABC broke the story. Tish James is “very guilty of something”.

The Virginia public prosecutor resigns in the middle of the pressure to complain about Letitia James

What is more, “He didn’t cancel, I fired him!”

It is a joke of a story compared to Trump and his team, who calls a special prosecutor to investigate Russian allegations again from 2016. Allegations of corruption against the Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, and the security checks for the law firm, which Robert Mueller left four years ago (later blocked by a judge).

The larger point is that we may have dealt with the serious spectacle of a president who not only bothers the one who Ministry of Justice But literally dictate who should be charged and who should be protected.

Trump said to Pam Bondi at the weekend: “You accused me twice and struck me (five times!), Nothing. Justice has to be served now !!!”

He said he believes James, Comey and Democratic sen. Adam ship are “all guilty like hell”, but that nothing is done.

As someone who used to roam the halls of the Ministry of Justice – and three independent advice in which Ronald Reagan, Ed Meese, was involved – that is very aware of ethical borders.

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After the Watergate scandal, to which the Attorney General John Mitchell also belonged to prison, the idea of ​​a wall between the White house And Doj was further cemented.

Joe biden I saw any participation in criminal probes as radioactive, and there has been no evidence of his manipulations (although he pardoned a couple of allies, including his son).

There was a huge turmoil back when Bill Clinton had a random meeting with his AG Loretta Lynch, while his wife was examined through her private e -mail server. She said they had spoken about grandchildren and trips. A CBS reporter called the meeting “absolutely shocking”.

But they don’t have to rely on unnamed sources to learn about Trump how he gives his attorney in general. He sends it and even boasts about it.

Of course, Trump goes far beyond the Doj. There are its financial resources against universities and send the National guard in DC and elsewhere and tries to relieve members of supposedly independent agencies such as the Federal Reserve.

The escalation against the media was almost breathtaking. Trump cheered Abc’s suspension from Jimmy Kimmel against the background of the FCC chairman Brendan Carr threaten to take measures against his local licenses. “We can do this in a simple way or on the hard tour,” he said, and asked some conservatives to say that he sounded like a mafioso.

Trump won a settlement from ABC about George Stephanopoulos with 16 million US dollars and said that Trump was liable for “rape”, not because of sexual abuse. He also won $ 16 million from CBS compared to the biased processing of a “60 -minute” interview with Kamala Harris.

Judge throws Trump’s 15 -billion dollar lawsuit against the New York Times because he is too long

It just happens that Nexstar, the Kimmel and has many CBS partners, needs the approval of the administration to take over Tegna, another media conglomerate.

Trump filed a lawsuit against Wall Street Journal to report that he had sent a birthday message Jeffrey Epstein With a silhouette of a naked woman – and when it appeared with what was very similar to his signature, he continued to deny that he had done it.

And then there is his 15 billion dollars against the New York Times, which a judge ejected after only four days because of his “unexcused” spread of the rules in a submission with “vitilation”. It is a strange suit because it was not triggered by a certain story, but only a general indictment that the Times campaign reporting was illegal, including a Harris confirmation that ran on the front page.

Even the largest companies have to spend a lot of money to defend such suits what the point is.

But nothing is as sensitive and powerful as law enforcement, whose civil servants can pursue ally shooters and opponents.

The position of the president is that Doj became against him during the Biden administration against him and is therefore entitled to repayment.

The latest news has just broken. The Ministry of Justice examined the border tsar Tom Homan For alleged providers to gain federal contracts to business people who actually hidden FBI agents -in return for $ 50,000.

But as MSNBC reports, Trump’s Doj dropped the case after taking office.
Since the encounter with a hidden camera took place before the choice of Trump, I was able to argue that he only did what hundreds of lobbyists do. With the exception of a nagging detail, Homan took the 50,000 bar in a fast food bag in Cava. No paper path.

And yet Pam Bondi The department gave him a pass.

Prosecutors in every administration must make difficult judgment calls whether they have sufficient evidence of convictions, especially against government officials or top -class numbers.

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And next time there is one democrat What should this person in the White House stop playing the same type of hardball and saying that your party was entitled to receive a repayment? The cycles could be endless.

At the moment it would be easier to have confidence in this law enforcement decision if the president did not open the shots openly.