It was another sequence of facts with few precedents in the history of the United States. President Donald Trump went this Saturday night (Washington time) to Truth, the social network of which he owns, to write, all in capital letters: “Justice must be done, now !!!”. Soon, he published another post in which he gave direct orders and in public to persecute several political rivals of the president. Bondi holds a position that in the American system is allegedly independent of the Executive Power.
That interference of Trump in the affairs of the Department of Justice concludes a week in which the Republican has threatened to remove the television licenses to the chains that are critical of him, has boasted as a crew of vessels to which he accuses of being drug traffickers, more important in the country for a sufficient amount to take him to the ruin and has promised that when he considered them as “terrorist organizations” At the moment, it does not allow it.
This Saturday’s second message began with the tone with which a father or mother reads the card to a son who has disappointed: “Pam: I have reviewed more than 30 statements and publications,” he says. Next, the President accuses the attorney general not to meet his objectives of persecuting Trump’s political adversaries. It is “the same story of the last time: pure talk and no action. Nothing is being done. And what about Comey, Adam Shifty Schiff and Laetitia? They are all guilty, but nothing happens. ”
Comey is James Comey, Adam Schiff is and one of Trump’s favorite targets. Laetitia is Letitia James, who successfully carried out a case of fraud against the then former president.
To look for a precedent of the forms and the background of the orders given in public to Bondi, you have to go back to the times of the Watergatewhen Richard Nixon tried to cover an illegal listening scandal of his adversaries that ended his presidency. The attorney general, one of whose great virtues to be part of the administration is, like that of the rest of its members, the loyalty to Trump, did not react to the messages and pressures of this.
The rest of the message referred to the resignation the previous night of Erik Siebert, federal prosecutor of Virginia. Siebert was in charge of the investigation into a supposed mortgage fraud of James and also had the accusation against Comey, which was in charge of the FBI between 2013 and 2017. The prosecutor worked for months, but found nothing. Before Trump’s pressures, he resigned this Friday night at the post.
Trump, who considered it this Saturday in Truth as “a progressive Republican who was never going to do his job,” he also said that he had fired him, and that it was not Siebert who resigned. “There is a big case [contra Letitia James]and many lawyers and legal experts say it, ”Trump added, before communicating to Bondi who will replace Siebert: Lindsey Halligan.
In a next message, Trump wrote that Bondi is doing a “great job”, because it is “very careful and intelligent,” but “needs” Halligan, it is understood that to fulfill the wishes of the president. A couple of hours later, Trump appointed her in another Truth. Among the merits he highlighted from that lawyer, who until Saturday worked as a White House advisor is that she is a “loyal lawyer.”
Without experience as a prosecutor
Haligan has developed much of his career in the branch of insurance right. It lacks experience as a prosecutor.
In an encounter with the reporters after the sequence of messages in Truth, Trump declared: “They accused me five times[indifferentjudicialprocesses;inoneofwhichitwasandturnedouttobeafraudWehavetoactquicklyonewayoranother:whetherornottheyareguiltywehavetoactquickly”[endiferentesprocesosjudiciales;enunodeloscualesfueyresultóserunfraudeTenemosqueactuarconrapidezdeunaformauotra:seanonoculpablestenemosqueactuarconrapidez”
Trump considers that in the years between his first and second presidency he was the victim of a “political persecution.” At that time, he was charged in four different criminal proceedings: to his particular residence of Mar-A-Lago (Florida), for facts related to the payment to a porn actress to buy his silence, for pressing Georgia’s officials to commit electoral fraud and for their alleged responsibility in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In the civil case for fraud for which James is sworn, a Manhattan judge sentenced Trump and his family to pay 454 million dollars. Last August, which limited the ability of the Trump organization to obtain loans and prevented Trump’s older children, Eric and Donald Junior, to administer the family business for two years.
