Ex-president determined to destroy independence of justice department if he regains control of White House
Donald Trump is planning an assault on the American justice system should he win re-election to the White House, in which he would seek to destroy the independence of the justice department and turn it into an attack machine for his Make American great again (Maga) movement.
At the heart of his plans is the desire to impose his will on the individual prosecutorial decisions taken by the Department of Justice. The move, if successful, would end half a century of accepted practice that prevents presidents from politically interfering with specific cases.
It would allow Trump in his second term to eradicate the federal prosecutions currently being pursued against him as well as against insurrectionists who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 whom he has championed as “hostages”. It would also free him to instigate legal investigations as acts of revenge against his perceived political enemies, including Joe Biden and family.
“I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family,” Trump said last year.
Yeah, par for the course for Hannity and anything fox news related, misleading headline and quote, from a misleading non-answer by Trump that’s so all over the place it’s hard to follow. Even the tiny little portion they clipped out, he goes on to say he has “every right” to go after Biden if elected.
And his accusations that Biden is directing his prosecution (especially ridiculous when two of the cases are state cases) are all projection anyways to distract from the fact that he’s already tried to interfere at the justice department many times when he was president.
“Trump ratchets up call for DOJ to investigate Hillary Clinton” https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/03/trump-doj-investigate-hillary-clinton-244505
“Trump ups pressure on Barr to probe Bidens as election nears” https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-william-barr-elections-20fd56b64801dd83b1657c630a1ebdfa
“Trump breaches boundaries by saying DOJ should be ‘going after’ Democrats” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-breaches-boundaries-by-saying-doj-should-be-going-after-democrats/2017/11/03/1c157c08-c0aa-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html
“‘Where are all of the arrests?’: Trump demands Barr lock up his foes” https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/trump-demands-barr-arrest-foes-427389
“Report: Trump wanted to prosecute Comey, Hillary Clinton” https://apnews.com/article/060ca2399a744b4a9554dbd2ec276a90
Such a short memory Trump has. So yes, it is very true, and he’s already tried to do it many times. I know you’re probably a troll posting misinformation, this comment is for anyone else reading.
All the news sources you mention are the same ones that said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation
Geeze dude, half of the shit in there is out of Trump’s own mouth. The first quote I listed was from the interview you posted! From Sean Hannity! If you’re not just a troll, you really need to take a step back and at least listen to some of the things your own god king is saying.
And yeah I’ll be sure not to vote for Hunter Biden or his laptop for president, thanks.
Trump said he’s not going to weaponize the justice department to go after his political enemies because what’s going on now has to stop even though he would have every right to do so. I do listen to what says, including the context which is something a lot of people like to leave out I noticed
Got Damn son, you didn’t just have a glass of the fucking Kool Aid, you drank the entire pitcher and asked for more.
Exactly what someone drinking all the kool-aid would say
Because it was. J
If it was, it wouldn’t have been entered into evidence in the trial