Post AySuyeWqbcMLWQOwvg by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AyStechdaKyi74KkdM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:04:18Z
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#Trump demanded on Saturday that his AG move quickly to prosecute figures he considers his enemies, the latest blow to the #DOJ’s tradition of independence.“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation & credibility,” Trump wrote in a social media post addressed to “Pam,” meaning US AG #PamBondi. “They impeached me twice, & indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/trump-justice-department-us-attorneys.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AyStlSu2Q4pZkJOdpQ by relistan@mstdn.social
2025-09-22T13:05:31Z
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@Nonilex This guy is such a piece of trash.
(DIR) Post #AyStsoopKpbrkCSv0y by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:06:54Z
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#Trump named #JamesComey, the former #FBI director; Senator #AdamSchiff, Democrat of California; & #LetitiaJames, the New York attorney general, saying he was reading about how they were “all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.”Asked later by reporters about his message for #PamBondi, Trump said, “They have to act. They have to act fast.”#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySu80WI74VENV2PuC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:09:38Z
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Even for a president who has shattered the traditional norms of maintaining distance from the #DOJ, #Trump’s unabashedly public & explicit orders to #PamBondi were an extraordinary breach of prosecutorial protocols that reach back to the days following the #Watergate scandal.#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySuBadOIS5fFo4DnE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:10:16Z
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His demands came a day after he ousted the federal prosecutor who failed to charge 2 of the adversaries he most reviles, #LetitiaJames & #JamesComey, showing how far #Trump has gone in exerting personal control over the #DOJ & breaching the longstanding norm about keeping #politics at a distance from #LawEnforcement.#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySuFvv56H4mQZPeDI by AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social
2025-09-22T13:11:00Z
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@Nonilex Does he ever say what they're guilty of?
(DIR) Post #AySuPJ7EEB0qyUZ3JI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:12:46Z
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In a different post later on Saturday, #Trump defended #PamBondi, saying she was doing a “GREAT job,” but that she needed a “tough prosecutor” in the Eastern District of VA, where Erik Siebert, was forced from his post atop the US attorney’s office on Friday. Trump said he would nominate Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to the president who was on his personal legal team, to fill the role.Halligan, who spent much of her career as an insurance lawyer, has never been a prosecutor.#law
(DIR) Post #AySuhxaySngJjVN8AS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:16:08Z
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Siebert’s exit deepened troubling questions that have arisen in recent months about the politicization of the #DOJ’s supposedly self-governing satellite offices.Beyond their efforts to push out Siebert, whose inquiries into James & Comey effectively fizzled out, #Trump admin officials have also ramped up pressure against Kelly O. Hayes, the #USattorney in Maryland, according to 3 people familiar with the matter.#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySupLI0leeHFK1SCG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:17:28Z
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Hayes, a career prosecutor who has spent more than a decade in that office, is leading inquiries into two other vocal critics of #Trump: Senator #AdamSchiff, who has been accused of mortgage fraud by Trump’s allies; & #JohnBolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, who is facing scrutiny over allegations of mishandling classified information.#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySuyeWqbcMLWQOwvg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:19:07Z
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Recently, Hayes told associates that she was under no illusions of the pressure she would face if she refused to bring a case she believed to be unsupported by evidence, as Siebert did…. And while she signed off last month on asking for a warrant to search #JohnBolton’s home in Bethesda, MD, she has indicated that she would not bring charges against #AdamSchiff unless her team discovered evidence to support them.#law #Trump #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySvGJ6T0It4HhTqKm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:22:18Z
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#Trump’s campaign against US attorneys, who oversee offices in 93 federal districts across the country, is an extension, even an escalation, of the early purge that his top political appointees carried out at the #DOJ headquarters & the #FBI against those who worked on the criminal cases brought against him before he returned to power.#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySvMCukvWzSpMoetU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:23:24Z
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But his latest demand for the prosecution of his foes also underscores how his desire for #retribution against those who pursued him after his first term remains as intense as ever, & how he appears to feel less constrained by political & legal norms in imposing payback.“I was indicted 5 times, it turned out to be a fake deal, & we have to act fast, one way or the other, one way or the other—they’re guilty, they’re not guilty, we have to act fast,” #Trump told reporters.#law #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySvZp5EKKrIyGCwOe by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:25:52Z
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Given that these prosecutors’ offices are where federal cases are filed on a day-to-day basis, the move strikes at the nuts-and-bolts foundations of the criminal justice system. It seems intended both to create a frictionless path for prosecutions of those who have run afoul of #Trump, & perhaps to provide the White House with a tool it could use to set aside or slow cases it would like to see disappear.#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySvgTi8BimMiDZpEO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:27:04Z
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White House interference in the work of US attorneys was once considered such a taboo that former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, who served under President George W. Bush, resigned in scandal after the #DOJ fired nine US attorneys in 2006 for what were perceived to be #political reasons.But #Trump’s reaction to Siebert’s ouster could not have been more different.#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AySvr359X7NrJINxYG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-22T13:28:59Z
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Several people, including #PamBondi & #ToddBlanche, the deputy attorney general & Trump’s former defense lawyer, lobbied hard to keep Siebert in place, arguing that he had been an efficient & cooperative partner on #immigration & #crime enforcement in Washington’s southern suburbs.But #Trump responded to repeated entreaties by saying, “I don’t care,” according to a person with knowledge of the matter.#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #AyTJ6WBzsiXisrvrWa by pdkoenig@mstdn.social
2025-09-22T17:49:26Z
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@Nonilex He also appears to be violating the Presidential Records Act by communicating via Truth Social.