In two executive orders, Donald Trump has assigned the Attorney General to investigate the former administration, in which the Department of Justice is advancing politically in his personal complaints, using the weight of justice. Is
The president on Monday signed orders on which “Federal government weapons“And” ”Government censorship of speechThe Biden administration directed the Attorney General to review the steps taken during the last four years and prepare a final report.
The incoming administration always sets its priorities in the first days, and Trump’s second round is no different from any of his predecessors. Trump also signed executive orders, which directed the department to bring more criminal cases to the southern border.
The fact that the investigations will be done outside the White House means that they may be less sensitive to the political interference of the West Wing assistants and leave the possibility that the investigative work is partially at least. Justice is done by career lawyers.
But the order to make weapons was especially unusual that the incoming attorney general was to check the alleged mismanagement in the Justice Department – instead of the department’s professional responsibility office or inspector general – and then in the White House. The results of the political appointment should be conveyed.
The Attorney General usually does not prepare reports for the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Policy Stephen Miller. Under the Department of Justice’s non -contract policy, which is designed to prevent political interference in the investigation, the Attorney General has to discuss with the staff level, with the White House lawyer or deputy adviser.
Taking different aspects of the arms order together, they predict the important role that Trump wants the Department of Justice to play in his second term and utilize its far -reaching power to enforce his agenda.
And while the order did not provide specific allegations that were considered, he referred to the language in the language “making the power of the prosecution a third world weapon” to advance the democratic process. Trump’s attacks on criminal cases brought by Smith were echoed.
The White House did not respond to a comment.
During the elections, Trump repeatedly protested against the criminal prosecution that he used secret documents wrongly and on his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and to be re -elected. ” Second “I vowed to dismiss. Smith had resigned before returning to Trump’s office.
In his first term, Trump repeatedly used the Justice Department to investigate politically sensitive issues in which he personally invested but he wanted to show that he had nothing to do with it. –
When Trump fired James Comey as the FBI Director in 2017, he initially cited a memo written by the then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein, an argument for his dismissal. Later, it was revealed that Trump had partially angry Comey after refusing to quit a criminal investigation against his national security adviser.
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At the end of his presidency, Trump pressured his then Attorney General, Bill Bar to announce that the Justice Department was investigating the fraud in the 2020 elections, though no scope for doing so with this department. There was no option, as part of an effort. To cope with the results in the seven states of the battlefield.
It remains to be seen how Trump’s upcoming Attorney General Pick, Palm Bondi, the arms order will be dealt with. In hearing of his Senate confirmation, he pledged to resist the White House’s political intervention, maintain a policy of contacts and not be a “list of enemies”.
Unless Bondi’s nomination is approved by the Senate, James McHenri III, who runs the immigration courts of the Department of Justice during the first term of Trump, is serving as an acting Attorney General. Other Trump appointments, such as the acting deputy attorney general, Emal Boo, and Bondi’s chief of staff, are already in their place.
Trump’s arms order also described the purpose of “correcting past mismanagement”, repeating the track record that he received during his first term while receiving payment against political opponents and all the FBI agencies. He was prepared when he reviewed the Trump campaign relations with Russia.
But Trump’s withdrawal efforts came to the process of implementation. The Special Council’s inquiry into the FBI’s inquiry into the Russian inquiry did not reach before the 2020 elections, as it hoped, and against a high -level FBI or a high -level intelligence official in the investigation. No charges were made.
