Mary Trump - Revenge, Corruption, and Injustice

Since the moment Donald was sworn in on January 20th, he’s done everything in his power to turn the Department of Justice into his personal defense firm, an instrument of his personal and political revenge, and a means by which to enrich himself and his allies. Towards that end he has installed unqualified hacks and virulently sycophantic idealogues. The result is that the once respected DOJ is currently in the business of making a mockery of its mission to protect the rights of the American people. The DOJ as we knew it no longer exists. The Civil Rights Division in particular, once the crown jewel of the DOJ, has been dismantled to a degree that is utterly shameful.

According to a report by Reuters, at least 462 people have been targeted by the DOJ at the behest of the Trump regime. This includes terminations, suspensions, loss of security clearance, and investigations. Almost 100 DOJ officials have been fired or forced to retire because they worked on cases against Donalds or his allies during the Biden administration. In some cases, workers have been removed for being “too woke” by, for example, displaying pride flags on their desks, which is the kind of discrimination cases the Civil Rights Division used to prosecute.

Then, of course, there is the incompetence of those Donald has put in charge. NBC News reports that a grand jury recently declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for a second time in two weeks. The case was brought by Lindsey Halligan, who once served as Donald’s personal attorney. She has no prosecutorial experience and the case was deemed too weak to proceed because Halligan is woefully unqualified. More importantly, the prosecution of James is, without doubt, a vindictive one. The only reason the DOJ has been going after her is because, as attorney general of New York state, she won a significant civil lawsuit against Donald: he was found liable for fraud and ordered to pay $355 million plus interest.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, Donald has dismantled the DOJ’s internal safeguards against abuses of power as well. He’s weakened the Office of Professional Responsibility and the Public Integrity and Civil Rights Divisions and fired Inspectors General. Career ethics and oversight officials have been fired, demoted, or replaced with loyalists because Donald is interested in neither oversight nor ethics. He wants the few remaining guardrails gone.

https://www.marytrump.org/p/revenge-corruption-and-injustice