Justice Department Restores Independence By Prosecuting Trump’s Enemies
The Justice Department restored its sacred political independence by limiting federal scrutiny to people President Donald Trump has publicly instructed it to punish. The department’s “grand conspiracy” investigation is proceeding despite the resignation of Trump ally Joe diGenova from the effort, an orderly personnel change officials described as proof that the case remains firmly anchored to presidential grievance rather than any particular prosecutor, statute or discoverable offense. Former CIA Director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to appear before a Florida grand jury examining whether officials connected to the Russia investigation and subsequent Trump prosecutions conspired to deprive Trump of his constitutional right never to be investigated.
Trump said the inquiry’s complete lack of political motivation was demonstrated by its perfect alignment with his political demands. “This is probably the most independent investigation anybody has ever seen, because I told them exactly who the criminals are before they started looking for crimes,” Trump said. “That saves tremendous time, and saving time is what justice is all about.” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel are continuing the search for evidence involving Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, former special counsel Jack Smith and other government employees suspected of committing the serious federal offense of noticing things Trump was doing.
The probe consolidates nearly a decade of investigations, prosecutions, campaign speeches, social-media posts and televised complaints into a single theory broad enough to eliminate the traditional burden of identifying one coherent conspiracy. Previous reviews found errors in the Russia investigation but did not establish a criminal anti-Trump plot, a result officials now regard as especially incriminating. According to the department’s reasoning, repeated failures to uncover the conspiracy demonstrate not that it was absent, but that it possessed the advanced concealment technique known as not existing in the evidence.
DiGenova’s departure was likewise presented as evidence of institutional stability. In a properly independent Justice Department, officials explained, prosecutors may resign, deadlines may expire, evidence may remain theoretical and alleged crimes may resist identification, but the president’s preferred defendants must never change. Federal law enforcement is therefore independent again because it now answers only to Donald Trump.
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