Trump Ordering DOJ to Charge Enemies with Crimes Sans Evidence

Trump pushed out a Trump-appointed prosecutor who refused to charge a Trump enemy sans evidence, meaning he is now ordering DOJ to charge people he doesn't like with crimes they haven't committed.

Got no evidence? It doesn’t matter! If Trump doesn’t like you, you’re going to jail.

This is the legal system the “law and order” party is supporting now, as of Saturday morning when Trump pushed out a Trump-appointed prosecutor who refused to charge one of Trump’s enemies with a crime they did not commit.

“The Trump-appointed prosecutor who refused to charge one of Trump’s enemies has now been forced out of office, and the United States is confronting something we have never seen before: A president essentially ordering his DoJ to charge someone with a crime, regardless of whether the people whose job it is to evaluate the case think there is insufficient evidence,” Ken Dilanian of MSNBC shared Saturday morning on X.

Dilanian wrote this over an earlier post on Friday, warning that this might happen:

“Two people familiar with the matter tell MSNBC that the Trump administration is preparing to fire the US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia today over his refusal to bring charges against the New York Attorney General. Career prosecutors do not believe the charges are warranted.”

This confirms the reports on Friday that Trump was going to fire U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert for resisting Trump‘s effort to charge New York AG Letitia James with a crime she did not commit (but a crime Trump, a convicted felon, knows a lot about).

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Trump told reporters on Friday that he wanted his hand-picked guy, Siebert, out ** because** two Democrats voted to approve him. In other words, Trump has told the media that if a Democrat approves of someone he chooses, he will fire them.

"I want him out," Trump told ABC News' Jonathan Karl, saying it was because Virginia's two Democratic Senators supported his nomination. Trump nominated Siebert for the position in May, and he has served as the interim U.S. attorney since Trump’s inauguration.

Just noting this because the media keeps suggesting that Trump and Republicans will be able to blame Democrats for their failure to fund the government when Republicans have a trifecta of power.