Trump escalates the revenge campaign with a request

Days after Trump publicly asked to take action from the public prosecutor and took advantage of his former personal lawyer to serve as senior federal public prosecutors in Virginia, former FBI director James Komei, a long -standing goal in Trump’s anger, was It was accused by a major jury To claim lying to Congress during Certificate in 2020.

Thursday hours, Trump A note signed Directing his republic to target supporters of what he called “leftist terrorism”, as he claimed without evidence of a vast conspiracy by non -profit groups and activists aligning the Democrats to finance violent protests.

The developments were marked by a great escalation of the unusual president’s use of the presidential authority to target his political competitors and his efforts to pressure the Ministry of Justice to follow up on investigations – and now the prosecutions – who are crowded. It is a campaign that began shortly after Trump’s promise to his position and the charge of critics as abuse of power that puts every American who dares to criticize the president of the risk of revenge.

“Donald Trump has made it clear that he intends to convert our judicial system into a weapon to punish its critics and destroy it,” said Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the Democrats of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The indictment in Komei came less than a week after Trump installed a former White House assistant to the role of the American lawyer in the eastern region of Virginia. He was the president OverthrowFrom his previous choice because he was not responding enough to Trump’s calls to connect charges against his long goals.

“This type of intervention is a serious use of power,” Warner said. “Our system depends on taking public prosecutors on the basis of evidence and law, not on the personal grudges of a politician who is determined to settle grades.”

Exclusion in revenge

The first former president was convicted of a felony-to fuse business records to hide the loud funds payments to hide an affair-Trump’s tag with the White House, despite the presence of a set of other legal problems due to his alleged retaining the classified information after leaving the White House in 2021 and his role in his denial of defeating the elections for the year 2020 that generates it in that January 6 attack on Capitol.

Thursday’s moves were the latest in a concerted effort by Trump to use the vast powers of his office in unparalleled ways to punish his enemies since his return to the Oval Office in January. During his campaign, Trump explained that this was his intention if he returned to his position.

He said in 2023: “In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior.

Earlier this week, it is I signed an order Appointment of a decentralized movement known as Antifa-short for “Fascism hostility”-as A local terrorist organizationThe first broad amendment protection test of organizations within the United States.

The Thursday note went further, as it targeted groups and donors to liberalism, and “represents a great abuse of power as the government either changes the law or the folding definitions to try to investigate and punish its political opponents in an unprecedented way to Trump Agency against its federal government.

As for Comey, she said: “He wanders in selective judicial prosecution, as she wanders in transitional targeting and calls for questioning the safety of many of the charges that the office receives.”

Meanwhile, Trump denied on Friday that he was in a campaign of revenge.

“It is really a justice. It is not revenge, it is related to justice. It is also about the fact that you cannot leave this continuous,” he told reporters. “They are sick, and they are rooted and they cannot stay away from it.”

He was asked who is the next in his list, he answered: “It is not an existing, but I think there will be others.”

Wide pressure campaign

behind Kumi, Trump also Certified Public Prosecutors To provide fraud fees in the mortgage against New York Public Prosecutor Leitia JamesWho brought a huge civil fraud case against the president. Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi last month His name is a private public prosecutor To investigate the mortgage allegations against James and the American Democratic Senator Adam Chef from California, another goal of Trump. Both denied violations.

The Ministry of Justice also started examination Mortgage allegations against Lisa CookThe ruler of the Federal Reserve, who has succeeded in the lower courts in challenging Trump’s efforts to remove it from its job, in a move that it says is designed to wear the independence of the central bank. Trump has appealed the Supreme Court to allow him to topple it.

Friday, Trump Microsoft was called for fire former Deputy Prosecutor Lisa MonacoWho has long occupied a grudge, from its position as head of global affairs.

He wrote: “Monaco has this type of access is unacceptable, and it cannot be allowed to stand.” Trump previously stripped her of her security statement, along with many others.

He also has Protection of the abstract secret service Of a large number of former officials, including his Democratic competitor for 2024, Kamala Harris, members of former President Joe Biden, and the people who fell from their favor, including the National Security Adviser at the same time John Bolton And his former minister Mike Pombo.

Trump also targeted major institutions, which led to the abolition of security permits for lawyers in Lawyers that distort themWithdrawing billions of dollars from federal research funds from elite universities, and securing settlements with millions of dollars against media organizations in lawsuits that were widely considered weak cases.

Earlier this week, it is ABC threatened the network decision To allow the night host, Jimmy Kimmel, to return to the air waves.

“I think we will test ABC on this. Let’s see how to do. The last time I went after them, gave me $ 16 million. This one looks more profitable,” Trump was raised.

His administration or re -appointment of federal employees has launched their previous work, including the prosecutors who worked on cases against him. The Ministry of Justice also Kumi’s daughter was launchedMourin Komei, from her job as a public prosecutor in the southern region of New York. Since then, a lawsuit was filed, saying that the end had had political motives.

Trump celebrates the indictment

Trump, at the same time, The indictment chanting KumiSaying “Justice in America!” He was submitted, even when Come denied committing any violations and expressed his confidence in his acquittal in the trial.

The indictment was the culmination of the pressure campaign that exploded at the general view during the weekend when Trump broadcast his frustrations with Bondi on his social media site and demanded that she move forward on charges against Kumi, James and Chef.

“We cannot delay for a longer period, it kills our reputation and credibility.” He wrote about the social truth on Saturday. “You must serve justice now !!!” He said that he would nominate Lindsay Halligan, his former personal lawyer and White House assistant, to be an American lawyer in the eastern region of Virginia to accelerate the pace after the overthrow Senior Prosecutor Erik SeparteThose who resigned under pressure to assume charges against James.

The charges against Komei came even when the general prosecutors in the office wrote a memorandum separating concerns about the pursuit of their accusation and the possibility of their success in the trial.

The former FBI director said in a video that he was innocent but he knew “standing for Donald Trump” would come with costs.

“My heart is broken to the Ministry of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I am innocent.”