{"id":44057,"date":"2020-02-12T12:53:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T20:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44057"},"modified":"2020-02-12T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:38:12","slug":"trump-orders-justice-dept-to-persecute-his-critics-and-pamper-his-accomplices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44057","title":{"rendered":"Trump Orders Justice Dept to Persecute His Critics and Pamper His Accomplices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There really is no bottom. Now Wannabe Dictator Donald Trump is bringing fascism to America. He is directing his corrupt Justice Department to investigate and prosecute (persecute) his critics. Meanwhile, he lobbies for light sentences and dangles pardons for his bootlicking sycophantic criminal accomplices. This is not normal. And it demonstrates that Republicans who <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44012\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">thought Trump might learn<\/a><\/strong> from his impeachment were frighteningly mistaken and\/or deluded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-dictator-e1542482428121.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39715\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3310090595672379\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43553\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney Genuflect, Bill Barr<\/a><\/strong>, announced that he will be revising the sentencing recommendations for convicted felon Roger Stone. The prosecutors who tried the case recommended seven to nine years based on established legal guidelines. But Barr&#8217;s intervention is based on nothing more than <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1227122206783811585\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s angry tweets<\/a><\/strong>. And if that&#8217;s not bad enough, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/barr-takes-control-legal-matters-interest-trump-including-stone-sentencing-n1135231?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Barr is assuming control<\/a><\/strong> of virtually everything that comes into the Justice Department that involves Trump. And Trump is obviously pleased&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to Attorney General Bill Barr for taking charge of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have even been brought. Evidence now clearly shows that the Mueller Scam was improperly brought &amp; tainted. Even Bob Mueller lied to Congress!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1227561237782855680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The spectacle of seeing a president congratulate his toady AG for letting a convicted criminal off the hook should send shivers up the spines of the American people. Stone was found guilty of five counts of lying to Congress, and one count each of witness intimidation and obstruction. But his friend in the White House is pulling strings so that he doesn&#8217;t have to pay the price for his crimes. As a result of Barr&#8217;s interference, all four of the federal prosecutors who tried the case <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/02\/11\/politics\/roger-stone-sentencing-justice-department\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">have quit<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Trump&#8217;s tweet also makes a dangerously reckless and baseless accusation that former special counsel Robert Mueller <em>&#8220;lied to Congress.&#8221;<\/em> Trump doesn&#8217;t bother to cite any alleged falsehood, probably because he just made it up to slander Mueller. In a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1227564604177469441\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">subsequent tweet<\/a><\/strong> Trump asserted, also without any foundation, that the career DOJ lawyers who tried Stone are <em>&#8220;Rogue prosecutors.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump has frequently weighed in on the criminal prosecutions of his associates. Just the fact that he has so many associates who have been prosecuted and found guilty is horrifying. But his reaction has been to lobby for lighter sentences or to issue pardons himself. Some of this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-associates-convicted-mueller-investigations-206295a1-5abc-4573-be25-4da19d9adcc9.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">confederacy of felons<\/a><\/strong> include his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, his deputy campaign manager, Rick Gates, his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and more.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of that legal coin, Trump has accused many of his political adversaries of crimes without any evidence whatsoever. In addition to Robert Mueller, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1203809537653956611\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump charged<\/a><\/strong> that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff <em>&#8220;is a corrupt politician and a criminal;&#8221;<\/em> that <em>&#8220;Nancy [Pelosi] is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1181033360241709056\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">every bit as guilty<\/a><\/strong>;&#8221;<\/em> that <em>&#8220;Hillary Clinton <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/750668480559607808\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lied to the FBI<\/a><\/strong>;&#8221;<\/em> and that <em>&#8220;The Biden family <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1180886039801602048\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">was PAID OFF<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em> None of these allegations have an iota of evidence for support. They are purely driven by the animosity and vengeance of a wrathful president.<\/p>\n<p>It has been widely known for years (decades?) that Trump is a vile and vindictive person who relishes punishing his perceived enemies. And he perceives enemies virtually everywhere, as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43998\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he himself recently confessed<\/a><\/strong>. But the fact that he has an administration full of glassy-eyed cult followers who will obediently serve his will makes him all the more dangerous. And the Department of Justice is at the top of that list.<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that there is nothing left to separate America from the totalitarian regimes and their tyrants that Trump so admires. This was articulated well by Sen. Chuck Schumer Wednesday on the floor of the Senate. It cannot be overstated how unusual it is for a speech like this to take place. but his words should be taken seriously if this country is to restore justice and preserve democracy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The President is claiming that rigging the rules is perfectly legitimate. He claims an absolute right to order the Justice Department to do anything he wants. And the President has as his Attorney General an enabler. And that&#8217;s a kind word. Does anyone think it&#8217;s out of the question that Pres. Trump might order the FBI to investigate Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or anybody else without any evidence that supports such an arbitrary violation of individual rights?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Oh, I know. Some far-right conspiratorial writer, who has no credibility and who just makes things up, writes it, Fox News puts it on, Sean Hannity or someone talks about it, and then the president says &#8216;Investigate.&#8217; That is third world behavior &#8211; not American behavior.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Does anyone think it&#39;s out of the question that Pres. Trump might order the FBI to investigate Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or anybody else?&quot; Sen. Chuck Schumer asks.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That is third world behavior\u2014not American behavior.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ufbOzDmW0y\">https:\/\/t.co\/ufbOzDmW0y<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u1ixCLPCAT\">pic.twitter.com\/u1ixCLPCAT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1227641042633138177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There really is no bottom. Now Wannabe Dictator Donald Trump is bringing fascism to America. He is directing his corrupt Justice Department to investigate and prosecute (persecute) his critics. Meanwhile, he lobbies for light sentences and dangles pardons for his bootlicking sycophantic criminal accomplices. This is not normal. And it demonstrates that Republicans who thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,8,13],"tags":[1295,1230,554,33,31,377,130,1247,239,129,1364],"class_list":["post-44057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-scandalous","tag-adam-schiff","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-joe-biden","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-robert-mueller","tag-roger-stone","tag-sean-hannity","tag-william-barr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-dictator-e1542482428121.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bsB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57722,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57722","url_meta":{"origin":44057,"position":0},"title":"Trump Lashes Out at Georgia Prosecutor After New Evidence of His Election Fraud is Revealed","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/13\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing is a more reliable gauge of Donald Trump's deteriorating mental state than his own rancid ravings on Truth Social, his floundering Twitter ripoff. 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