Under acting Attorney General #ToddBlanche, the #DOJ has pushed to speed up #Trump’s campaign of #retribution. But the cases he’s brought since taking the reins of the department in April have been heavily criticized & are likely to face challenges in court over allegations of politicization.

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #whitewashing #propaganda #rape #RapistInChief

Prosecutors’ theory hinges on a 2022 deposition statement by Carroll, 82, that she received no outside funding for her lawsuit, though it was later revealed that billionaire Reid Hoffman had paid some legal fees & expenses.

…The probe is the latest move in the #DOJ’s ceaseless, & strained, efforts to meet #Trump’s demands to target his long-standing personal foes.

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So freaking bleak

My News Notifications:

Reuters
#Trump purges another #Republican #critic with #Massie defeat in #Kentucky primary

NYT
Vocal #TrumpCritic Ousted
Rep #ThomasMassie of Kentucky, a prominent #GOP critic of Trump, lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger.

WaPo
Rep Massie loses GOP primary in Kentucky, latest casualty of Trump's #wrath

#law #Congress #elections #RevengePolitics #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #despotism #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #USpol

#JoeDiGenova’s appointment has rattled current & former employees of the #CIA who worry he will go after anyone inside the intelligence community who #Trump perceives to have played a ​part in politically motivated investigations, two of the sources said.

#law #ElectionInterference #Russia #PutinsPuppet #WeaponizationOfGovernment #propaganda #gaslighting #RevengePolitics

The #DOJ last month removed the veteran prosecutor in ​Miami who had been leading ⁠the investigation into #Brennan. The department then installed #JoeDiGenova, a former federal prosecutor turned conservative legal commentator & critic of Brennan, to oversee the probe & a related effort to examine whether prior investigations into #Trump amounted to a conspiracy against the president. 🙄🥱

#law #ElectionInterference #Russia #WeaponizationOfGovernment #propaganda #gaslighting #RevengePolitics

Acting AG #ToddBlanche helped oversee the #DOJ’s investigation into #Brennan when #PamBondi was AG. #Trump fired Bondi in April amid ​mounting White House frustration with the pace & outcome of her team’s investigations.

#law #ElectionInterference #Russia #PutinsPuppet #WeaponizationOfGovernment #propaganda #gaslighting #RevengePolitics

#Brennan’s lawyer said in a letter to the chief federal judge in Miami that prosecutors had told his client that he is a target of the investigation. He stated prosecutors were "#JudgeShopping" by trying to steer the investigation to a Trump-appointed judge in Fort Pierce, Florida, who previously dismissed a #criminal case against #Trump [yup, it’s the ever-so-compromised #AileenCannon.

#law #ElectionInterference #Russia #WeaponizationOfGovernment #propaganda #gaslighting #RevengePolitics

The dossier was referenced only briefly ​in the assessment & a summary of its allegations was attached to a classified version of the report. #Brennan has said the #CIA opposed including the #SteeleDossier in the report ​& the classified summary was only included as part of a compromise with the #FBI.

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Known as the #SteeleDossier after its author, fmr British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, the document was funded by Trump's political opponents & included salacious rumors about alleged links between his 2016 campaign & Moscow, which #Trump strenuously denied. [but it was just 1 document in the investigation]

#law #ElectionInterference #Russia #PutinsPuppet #WeaponizationOfGovernment #propaganda #gaslighting #RevengePolitics