Justice Department Removes Politics By Investigating Trump Investigators
The Justice Department has achieved a historic breakthrough in depoliticizing federal law enforcement by politically investigating the investigators who investigated President Donald Trump. Prosecutors are preparing grand jury subpoenas for former officials connected to the Trump-Russia inquiry under the exquisitely neutral theory that examining Trump was itself a criminal conspiracy against Trump. Former CIA Director John Brennan has been identified by his attorneys as a target, with potential offenses believed to include testifying while insufficiently complimentary and remembering 2016 without written authorization from the future president.
The department has embraced a theory long promoted by former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova, who repeatedly described Trump as the victim of an intelligence-community plot and is therefore regarded as ideally disinterested. Officials compared the arrangement to selecting a campaign treasurer to audit campaign spending or asking a casino owner whether the house enjoys any structural advantages. “We’re taking politics completely out of justice by prosecuting the political people who were against me, which is the fairest system anybody has ever seen,” Trump said. “When everyone who investigated me has been investigated, nobody will ever again think an investigation could be political.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s department is seeking sworn testimony despite earlier reviews by special counsel Robert Mueller and the Justice Department inspector general, which documented errors but did not uncover the required master conspiracy by senior officials. Prosecutors can now correct those inadequate conclusions by investigating them repeatedly until they produce conclusions that demonstrate the department was never seeking a particular conclusion. The process follows the government’s new evidentiary standard, under which the absence of proof confirms that the plot was sophisticated enough to conceal all proof.
The inquiry is operating from Fort Pierce, Florida, placing it in the federal division where Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon presides and honoring the American legal tradition of shopping for justice near a preferred referee. Officials stressed that the investigation is not retaliation, because retaliation involves punishing adversaries while this effort merely uses federal power to impose consequences on the president’s adversaries. Accountability has now been permanently protected from politics by ensuring it applies only to people who tried to apply it to Trump.
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