The Trump Naked Effort to Use the US Justice Dept. to Settle Scores …..

A do it ‘FAST!’…..

He want’s them IN JAIL , a place he ducked by running for President and winning…..

He ‘s STILL a convicted criminal…

Are we walking into a Nixon type Justice Dept. Saturday Night Massacre situation?

Several Justice Dept. Lawyers have ALREADY quit under political pressure to carry out Trump ‘get even’ tries….

Trump IS sure to search for SOMEONE who  WILL do what he wants?

Which isn’t the Law…

Just Ego assuaging ….

Which ain’t Right….

And IS Un-American….

 

President Trump demanded on Saturday that his attorney general move quickly to prosecute figures he considers his enemies, the latest blow to the Justice Department’s tradition of independence.

“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” Mr. Trump wrote in a social media post addressed to “Pam,” meaning Attorney General Pam Bondi. “They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”

Mr. Trump named James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director; Senator Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California; and Letitia James, 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 Ms. Bondi, Mr. Trump said, “They have to act. They have to act fast.”

Even for a president who has shattered the traditional norms of maintaining distance from the Justice Department, Mr. Trump’s unabashedly public and explicit orders to Ms. Bondi were an extraordinary breach of prosecutorial protocols that reach back to the days following the Watergate scandal.

His demands came a day after he ousted the federal prosecutor who failed to charge two of the adversaries he most reviles, Ms. James and Mr. Comey, showing how far Mr. Trump has gone in exerting personal control over the Justice Department and breaching the longstanding norm about keeping politics at a distance from law enforcement.

In a different social media post later on Saturday, Mr. Trump defended Ms. Bondi, saying she was doing a “GREAT job,” but that she needed a “tough prosecutor” in the Eastern District of Virginia, where Erik S. Siebert, was abruptly forced from his post atop the U.S. attorney’s office on Friday. Mr. Trump said he would nominate Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to the president who was on his personal legal team, to fill the role.

Ms. Halligan, who spent much of her career as an insurance lawyer, has never been a prosecutor.

Mr. Siebert’s exit deepened troubling questions that have arisen in recent months about the politicization of the Justice Department’s supposedly self-governing satellite offices.

But it also raised a blunter and more immediate issue: Which of the nation’s U.S. attorneys might be next?…

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Beyond their efforts to push out Mr. Siebert, whose inquiries into Ms. James and Mr. Comey effectively fizzled out, administration officials have also ramped up pressure against Kelly O. Hayes, the U.S. attorney in Maryland, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Ms. Hayes, a career prosecutor who has spent more than a decade in that office, is leading inquiries into two other vocal critics of Mr. Trump: Mr. Schiff, who has been accused of mortgage fraud by Mr. Trump’s allies; and John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, who is facing scrutiny over allegations of mishandling classified information….

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Several people, including Ms. Bondi and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general and the president’s former defense lawyer, lobbied hard to keep Mr. Siebert in place, arguing that he had been an efficient and cooperative partner on immigration and crime enforcement in Washington’s southern suburbs.

But Mr. Trump responded to repeated entreaties by saying, “I don’t care,” according to a person with knowledge of the matter. His position seemed to be that he had been warned several times during his first term about firing U.S. attorneys, given that it could have put him in jeopardy, and he ended up being investigated after leaving office anyhow, the person said….

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Moreover, a handful of top federal prosecutors handling sensitive cases have resigned in recent months under curious circumstances.

In August, Todd Gilbert, the former U.S. attorney in the Western District of Virginia, left his post one month after taking the job as prosecutors under him conducted a related investigation into Mr. Comey. And in May, Ben Schrader, a top prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Nashville, quit just before the office filed charges against Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March and then returned to U.S. soil to face indictment….

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President Trump claimed the U.S. attorney in Virginia who didn’t pursue a case against New York’s attorney general Letitia James was fired following earlier reports he resigned.

Why it matters: Trump has a history of demanding Justice Department officialstarget his personal political enemies, but the president provided a different, unrelated rationale for Erik Siebert’s ouster.

What he’s saying: Trump wrote in a Truth Social post late Friday that he withdrew Seibert’s nomination when he “was informed that he received the UNUSUALLY STRONG support” of the two Democratic senators from Virginia.

• The president was referring to that fact that Siebert was backed by Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia.
• “He didn’t quit, I fired him! Next time let him go in as a Democrat, not a Republican,” Trump added.

Catch up quick: Siebert, who was also investigating former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, was unable to prove with other prosecutors that James committed mortgage fraud when purchasing a home in 2023, ABC and NBC News reported.

• Siebert had also declined to prosecute Comey based on allegations brought by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, according to the Washington Post.

State of play: The Trump administration has repeatedly dangled mortgage fraud as a tool against its perceived political enemies.

• Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director William Pulte alleged this year that James had “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms.”

Context: James has been a frequent foe of Trump, who has slammed her as “biased and corrupt.”….

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