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.

  • NoSuchAgency@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    He’s been saying that, the fake news just like to cherry pick everything he says. Sadly, a lot of people just aren’t very bright and they buy into it just like when they rambled on about the Hunter Biden laptop telling people it was Russian disinformation. It’s just government propaganda

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      5 months ago

      Oh you mean the laptop that had no chain of custody, and let’s say it’s all true, literally nothing illegal?

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        5 months ago

        Plenty of evidence of illegal activities on the laptop, drugs, prostitution, text and emails implementing him and others in more crimes. They just want you to believe there was nothing but d*ck pics on it

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            5 months ago

            Lol, what do you think it is that got him into court? If ut wasn’t for the text messages on his laptop and him writing a book about it, he would have never been in court in the first place because they wouldn’t have known he lied on the form