Posted on 11/24/2024 7:41:14 AM PST by libstripper
ASHINGTON — When Matt Gaetz abruptly withdrew as President-elect Donald Trump’s candidate for attorney general on Thursday, many career attorneys in the Justice Department breathed a sigh of relief.
Hours later, though, Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a longtime loyalist who backed the former president’s lies about the 2020 election and said “horrible” people in the department were trying to make names for themselves by “going after Donald Trump and weaponizing our legal system.”
Justice Department attorneys now hope that Trump’s pick for the critical No. 2 position at the department — Todd Blanche, the president-elect’s defense lawyer — can help protect the department’s career civil servants from Trump’s wrath.
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Bondi video on FOX Business this morning.
2023: We will prosecute the bad actors in DOJ. We will clean house.
Sigh. Even after Harris got 10,000,000 fewer "votes" than Biden.
Hey, MSN......how about Pam Bondi appoints Matt Gaetz as HER own internal DOJ bulldog to go after some of these entrenched Trump haters?
“… a longtime loyalist who backed the former president’s lies about the 2020 election…”
Tell me you’re biased news site without telling me you’re a biased news site.
Leftwing propagandists.
And it was 18 million the day after.
Prove to me there’s election cheating without telling me there’s election cheating.
8 million uncounted votes in the mail AFTER Election Day? BS
Gaetz could be Anti-Corruption Czar or Lawfare Czar.
What are those "lies" exactly?
“Will Trump’s former defense lawyer protect the Justice Department from Trump?”
What malfeasance do they need protection from I wonder?
if the leftist legacy media likes him....
Those ten million were either fraudulent, or they were Democrats who would vote for a white man, but not a Woman of Color. In other words, racist Democrats.
The Justice Department has 40 component organizations and 115,000+ employees. Go after the ones who abused their positions and let the others continue to do their jobs. There should not be blanket punishments for the whole organization, that would be stupid and counterproductive. Specifically target the problems and deal with them according to the law.
But maybe it should rain on the just and unjust alike as a reminder.
you’re right, the 99% of lawyers give the 1% a bad name
"People close to Blanche say his past work as a career federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York gives him an understanding of the department’s tradition of barring presidents and politicians from influencing individual criminal investigations.
Some current DOJ officials hope that Blanche, who as deputy attorney general will oversee day-to-day operations in the department if confirmed, can help prevent a worst-case scenario: Trump wielding federal law enforcement as a cudgel against his political enemies.
....Blanche was until recently a registered Democrat...."
The DOJ needs to be cleaned out like Hercules cleaned those stables.
And that’s not the only Federal department that needs cleaning.
Not to mention the plagued rats nest on Capitol Hill.
Eggzackly.
What is scaring the crap out of these socalled DOJ azhos? Then there are the Smurf Governors. Trump has all of them on the run and making death threats all over the place.
I’ll do the honors: Barf
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