AG Pam Bondi: She'll allow Trump's deeds she told committee she would not do

 

Newly sworn in AG Pam Bondi

(DOJ headed for Topsy-Turvy turmoil)

The following from new AG Pam Bondi in her statement after she told the Senate committee that she would NOT do what is now reported from THE AP NEWS with this headline and in the post that follows this post here  (edited and formatted to fit the blog).

WASHINGTON (AP) — New AG Pam Bondi has ordered a review of the federal prosecution of Trump as she unveiled a series of directives designed to overhaul the DOJ the president claims is biased against conservatives.

Hours after she was sworn in at the White House, Bondi called for the creation of “weaponization working group” that will scrutinize the work of special counsel Jack Smith who charged Trump in two criminal cases (January 6 and Mar-a-Lago classified documents).

The group will review “unethical prosecutions”   stemming from those two events among other things, according to her the memo.

MY NOTE ADDED: The use of the word “weaponization” used by the GOP against DEMS and anyone not a conservative is precisely what they are doing in a raw, nasty, and ugly in our face operation to appease Trump and across the DOJ now and with Musk at DOGE – no question about that can be denied.

“Trump administration forces out multiple senior FBI officials and January 6 prosecutors”

Trump said he was not aware of the removals. Officials also said that thousands of FBI agents who investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are under review.

Trump administration officials have forced out all six of the FBI’s most senior executives and multiple heads of FBI field offices across the country, current and former FBI officials told NBC News.

The list included the high-profile leader of the Washington, D.C., field office, which was involved in the prosecutions of Trump, and federal prosecutors who investigated January 6 rioters.

A congressional aide said the number of prosecutors impacted is roughly two dozen. A letter sent to the fired prosecutors said their removal was based on their role in the January 6 prosecutions.

It cited an executive order Trump recently signed that: “Called the Jan. 6 prosecutions a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years.”

In a separate memo to the FBI workforce sent out, the acting director, Brian J. Driscoll, Jr., informed employees that acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove *(was Trump criminal defense lawyer), had asked for a list of all FBI employees who worked on January 6 cases for “a review process to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary, and Driscoll wrote: “We understand that this request encompasses thousands of employees across the country who have supported these investigative efforts. I am one of those employees.”

The removals came a day after Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, testified under oath in his Senate confirmation hearing and said: “All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution.”

Asked by a reporter about the removals on Friday afternoon, Trump said he was not aware of them.

Then he quickly added: “No, but we have some very bad people over there. It was weaponized at a level that nobody has ever seen before. They came after a lot of people like me, but they came after a lot of people. No, I wasn’t involved in that. I’ll have to see what is exactly going on after this is finished. Some FBI officials needed to be removed. If they fired some people over there, that’s a good thing, because they were very bad. They were very corrupt people, very corrupt, and they hurt our country very badly with the weaponization and they used the Justice Department to go after their political opponent, which in itself is illegal, and obviously it didn’t work.”

This added summary:

Trump praised Bondi's record as a prosecutor and said she will restore “fair, equal and impartial justice" at the department. 

Bondi told the president that she would not let him down adding: “I will make you proud and I will make this country proud. I will restore integrity to the Justice Department and I will fight violent crime throughout this country and throughout this world, and make America safe again.”

Bondi enters with the department roiled by the firings of career prosecutors and senior FBI officials, along with the highly unusual scrutiny of thousands of agents involved in the sprawling January 6 investigation.

FBI agents this week sued after the DOJ demanded that the bureau turn over the names of all agents involved in the January 6 probe, which agents believe may be a precursor to mass firings.

Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove said in a memo to the workforce: “That FBI agents who simply followed orders and carried out their duties in an ethical manner are not at risk of being fired. The only employees who should be concerned are those who acted with corrupt or partisan intent. There is no honor in the ongoing efforts to distort that simple truth or protect culpable actors from scrutiny on issues which have politicized the Bureau, harmed its credibility, and distracted the public from the excellent work being done every day.”

My 2 Cents: It pains me to say a lot of lies were told in order to gain power for Trump and then get confirmed and into office while removing any guardrails against the massive changes that we are seeing and those forthcoming.

The new guardrails mow in place are there to protect Trump and at the same time block the public’s view and taking away any accountability to the public are doing up faster than we can count equaling total Trump/GOP/MAGA control.

Believe it – changes are now right before our eyes and in our collective face that will go unchecked at will and protect Trump – which has been his strategy all along to the stop or get right of the many charges against him (with SCOTUS’ decision) has achieved that goal to date.

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