Posted on 11/19/2024 8:46:17 PM PST by bitt
Multiple former and current DOJ and FBI officials are considering hiring lawyers “in anticipation of being criminally investigated” by the incoming Trump administration, three people with knowledge of their deliberations told NBC News.
The preemptive initiative underscores a serious belief that President-elect Donald Trump will make good on his promise to purge the federal government of rogue and corrupt actors within the administrative state.
Last week, Trump transition adviser Mark Paoletta warned DOJ career attorneys that subverting, undermining, or sabotaging Trump’s incoming agenda will be cause for termination.
Paoletta cited examples of potential policies the DOJ might have to implement, such as deporting illegal aliens, securing the southern border, banning race-based affirmative action, investigating antisemitism, halting big tech censorship, and granting pardons and commutations to January 6 defendants.
“Everything we did was aboveboard,” a former senior FBI official alleged on NBC News. “But this is a different world.”
Some career Justice Department officials cried after Trump won the election, according to the report, due to the realization that Trump would likely try to rid the administrative state of a cesspool of corruption. The term “administrative state” describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies, including the national security apparatus, exercising power to create and enforce their own rules. The administrative state uses its rule-making ability to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not formed by the Constitution.
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Why in the world would they be worried about that.
This is the US Justice Department we are talking about
I believe the correct phrasing is “No one is above the law”.
I hope they will need the lawyers.
I heard Julie Kelly on Steve Bannon’s War Room, and the anger and contempt she has came right through in her interview.
She has covered these scumbags, and she talks about how they grinned and joked while prosecuting innocent citizens, people they KNEW were innocent who did not have the means to fight back, and she relished the thought of those beasts, arrogant when they hold all the power, coming to tears, hearing that someone might be coming for them.
These people, all of them in the FBI, DOJ, and intelligence agencies should be prosecuted to the maximum possible under the law, with no compassion or mercy.
None.
Until it is shown that this will be severely punished, it will not stop.
Me too. I want to see them suffer.
Why on earth would they be worried and hire a lawyer?
The easier path?
One word...
FLIP!
👍👍👍👍👍
The hunters are becoming the hunted all over the place!
They better be lawyering up.
Attempt failed.
The owl has died. A hoot will not be given.
“Everything we did was aboveboard,”
And not a prosecutable crime with an illegitimate regime in control.
The Meritless Garland needs to be Gitmo’d.
Trump already winning without doing a thing.
Only the guilty need lawyers.
😬
Getting lawyers and being prosecuted is less scary than prosecuting the pedophiles they compromised... aint that a b.tch. They could just prosecute the pedophiles in DC. They still have the DOJ for a few more weeks and D.C. juries will do anything they tell them... Right? Or are the judges also compromised pedophiles... it does get sticky when everyone is a crook doesn’t it...
If I were in this group....I’d cash out my savings/IRA/TSP, and quietly leave the country.
How similar that sounds to "I was just following orders".
They’re buying soap on a rope just in case they need them in prison showers.
And rehearsing the Richard Pryor teaching Gene Wilder about being strong in prison “we bad, that’s right” scene in Stir Crazy.
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