Trump’s DOJ ready to hit the war path

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    WASHINGTON — The conservative activist named by President Donald Trump as the head of the Justice Department's "Weaponization Working Group" said Tuesday he planned to "name" and "shame" individuals the department determines it is unable to charge with crimes, in what would amount to a major departure from longstanding Justice Department protocols.

    Ed Martin described himself at a press conference as the "captain" of the group that is investigating prosecutors who launched past investigations into Trump and his allies.

    “There are some really bad actors, some people that did some really bad things to the American people. And if they can be charged, we’ll charge them. But if they can’t be charged, we will name them," Martin said. "And we will name them, and in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are ashamed. And that’s a fact. That’s the way things work. And so that’s, that’s how I believe the job operates.”

    During Trump's first tenure, the justification given for Trump's firing of former FBI Director James Comey was that Comey had given a press conference in which he released "derogatory information" about then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.

    "Derogatory information sometimes is disclosed in the course of criminal investigations and prosecutions, but we never release it gratuitously," then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote in a memo, adding that he believed Comey had given a "textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do."

    Martin's remarks came on his last full day as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on Tuesday. Trump announced last week that he was naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney following Martin's 120-day tenure, instead making Martin the pardon attorney, associate deputy attorney general, and director of the "Weaponization Working Group" that Attorney General Pam Bondi established at the Justice Department in response to one of Trump's executive orders.

    That group is due to examine work including that of former Special Counsel Jack Smith; any federal cooperation with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who prosecuted Trump's hush money case, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a civil case against the Trump Organization; the Justice Department's handling of cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack; and criminal prosecutions of anti-abortion activists, among other issues.

    “When it comes to the problem of weaponization, the first part of it must be transparency," Martin said. "We have to show our fellow Americans what went on, because when you hide it and then you prosecute, you look like your target. That’s what the Biden administration, they didn’t tell you what they were doing they just targeted people.”...............

    DOJ 'weaponization' group will shame individuals it can't charge with crimes, new head says

    As Jeanine Pirro prepares to become U.S. attorney in D.C., Trump loyalist Ed Martin is taking over the Justice Department's effort to investigate Trump's investigators.
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    DJ1BigTymer said:
    Bondi diminished the DoJ the very moment she issued those memos that described its attorneys as the President's attorneys. From that moment, she betrayed the Office of the Attorney General by declaring an allegiance to an individual and not The United States of America, which the Judicial act of 1789 demands.
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    This "DoJ" is not conducting itself as the Law prescribes it to act, the GOP and its voters will continue to turn a blind eye to the DoJ's unlawful actions. Their consistent infidelity to the Oath of Office is mind-blowing.

    WASHINGTON — The conservative activist named by President Donald Trump as the head of the Justice Department's "Weaponization Working Group" said Tuesday he planned to "name" and "shame" individuals the department determines it is unable to charge with crimes, in what would amount to a major departure from longstanding Justice Department protocols.

    Ed Martin described himself at a press conference as the "captain" of the group that is investigating prosecutors who launched past investigations into Trump and his allies.


    “There are some really bad actors, some people that did some really bad things to the American people. And if they can be charged, we’ll charge them. But if they can’t be charged, we will name them," Martin said. "And we will name them, and in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are ashamed. And that’s a fact. That’s the way things work. And so that’s, that’s how I believe the job operates.”

    DOJ 'weaponization' group will shame individuals it can't charge with crimes, new head says

    As Jeanine Pirro prepares to become U.S. attorney in D.C., Trump loyalist Ed Martin is taking over the Justice Department's effort to investigate Trump's investigators.
    www.nbcnews.com
     
    A former Department of Justice lawyer who was unceremoniously fired by the Donald Trump administration absolutely stunned one of the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" when she revealed the contents of a memo she had received from Attorney General Pam Bondi before she was ousted.

    According to Liz Oyer, who advised on pardons at the DOJ, Bondi buried employees with a flood of memos that began with one explaining that their mission going forward was to work for Trump.

    They then proceeded to grow more detailed.

    "If I could just share a quick anecdote," she began. "You know, when I was at the department before I was fired, we were getting bombarded daily with these orders from the attorney general."

    "Pam Bondi signing memos to the workforce that are giving us our marching orders, telling us you are all the president's lawyers, carry out his his mission," she elaborated. "And it got down so far into the minutiae that we got a memo to the 115,000 employees of the department saying the Department of Justice is abolishing paper straws because the president doesn't like paper straws so it is our obligation as attorneys in the Department of Justice to eradicate the scourge of of paper straws and replace them with plastic."..........


     
    Optimus Prime said:
    A former Department of Justice lawyer who was unceremoniously fired by the Donald Trump administration absolutely stunned one of the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" when she revealed the contents of a memo she had received from Attorney General Pam Bondi before she was ousted.

    According to Liz Oyer, who advised on pardons at the DOJ, Bondi buried employees with a flood of memos that began with one explaining that their mission going forward was to work for Trump.

    They then proceeded to grow more detailed.

    "If I could just share a quick anecdote," she began. "You know, when I was at the department before I was fired, we were getting bombarded daily with these orders from the attorney general."

    "Pam Bondi signing memos to the workforce that are giving us our marching orders, telling us you are all the president's lawyers, carry out his his mission," she elaborated. "And it got down so far into the minutiae that we got a memo to the 115,000 employees of the department saying the Department of Justice is abolishing paper straws because the president doesn't like paper straws so it is our obligation as attorneys in the Department of Justice to eradicate the scourge of of paper straws and replace them with plastic."..........


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    Not surprised at all. Disgusted? Yes. But not surprised.
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    A former Department of Justice lawyer who was unceremoniously fired by the Donald Trump administration absolutely stunned one of the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" when she revealed the contents of a memo she had received from Attorney General Pam Bondi before she was ousted.

    According to Liz Oyer, who advised on pardons at the DOJ, Bondi buried employees with a flood of memos that began with one explaining that their mission going forward was to work for Trump.

    They then proceeded to grow more detailed.

    "If I could just share a quick anecdote," she began. "You know, when I was at the department before I was fired, we were getting bombarded daily with these orders from the attorney general."

    "Pam Bondi signing memos to the workforce that are giving us our marching orders, telling us you are all the president's lawyers, carry out his his mission," she elaborated. "And it got down so far into the minutiae that we got a memo to the 115,000 employees of the department saying the Department of Justice is abolishing paper straws because the president doesn't like paper straws so it is our obligation as attorneys in the Department of Justice to eradicate the scourge of of paper straws and replace them with plastic."..........


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    I know quite a few DOJ attorneys in various US Attorneys offices around the country, but mostly in DC. It's bad - they are jumping ship in droves. Like so many that it will be impossible to do the work, and if they do hire replacements, they will be vastly inexperienced.

    These offices have very busy case loads. I'm guessing the judges aren't going to be particularly sympathetic to the USA's position in court that it needs time to re-staff the case. And the worst part about that is that when the USA loses civil cases in court, there's usually money damages involved. That means we all lose.
     

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