MFOHome About Commentary Discussions Funds The Best Resources Support Us!

Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

Sign In Register

Categories

In this Discussion

Here's a statement of the obvious: The opinions expressed here are those of the participants, not those of the Mutual Fund Observer. We cannot vouch for the accuracy or appropriateness of any of it, though we do encourage civility and good humor.

    Support MFO

  • Donate through PayPal

Retribution & Project 2025

Observant1
edited February 2 in Off-Topic
Trump wrongfully asserted the DOJ was weaponized against him during the first administration.
He has taken political doublespeak to unprecedented levels.

Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American (Feb. 1, 2025)

"Last night, officials in the Trump administration purged the Federal Bureau of Investigation of all six of its top executives and, according to NBC’s Ken Dilanian, more than 20 heads of FBI field offices, including those in Washington, D.C., and Miami, where officials pursued cases against now-president Trump. Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove, who represented Trump in a number of his criminal cases, asked acting FBI director Brian J. Driscoll Jr. for a list of FBI agents who had worked on January 6 cases to 'determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary.'”

"Officials also fired 25 to 30 federal prosecutors who had worked on cases involving the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and reassigned others. Bove ordered the firings. Career civil servants can’t be fired without cause, and these purges come on top of the apparently illegal firing of 18 inspectors general across federal agencies and a purge of the Department of Justice of those who had worked on cases involving Trump."

https://substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson/notes

Comments

  • Sven
    I read the article too - very depressing ! These are career civil servants who are supposedly apolitical. It is the DOJ and FBI duties to investigate those who broke the laws of this country.
  • Observant1
    edited February 3
    Yes, these people were only faithfully performing their duties.
    The orange-colored, thin-skinned autocrat's feelings were hurt
    and unfortunately they are now subject to nasty consequences
    from the Felonious Skunk™ (not to be confused with jazz pianist Thelonious Monk).
  • Observant1
    Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American (Feb. 2, 2025)

    "On Friday, James E. Dennehy of the FBI’s New York field office told his staff that they are 'in a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy.' He vowed that he, anyway, is going to 'dig in.'”
Sign In or Register to comment.