Trump defenders poised to go on offense at DOJ

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-24 17:11:02 | Updated at 2024-11-29 19:52:00 5 days ago

Trump defenders poised to go on offense at DOJ
Washington Examiner ^ | 24 Nov, 2024 | Ashley Oliver

Posted on 11/24/2024 8:37:35 AM PST by MtnClimber

President-elect Donald Trump’s staunchest personal legal defenders are set to transform into his Department of Justice leadership team and will, if confirmed, face their toughest loyalty test yet as they aim to fulfill Trump’s federal law enforcement visions.

Trump’s personal lawyers will fill three of the most powerful positions at the DOJ, while former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who defended Trump during his first impeachment, will helm the department as attorney general. Some legal experts say Trump’s gravitation toward loyalists could serve him well, while others have raised caution flags over it.

Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus who defended Trump during his first impeachment alongside Bondi, told the Washington Examiner he thought Trump’s choices were sensible and that the president-elect “likes to test people.”

“It’s not surprising to me that he wants to pick people who have proven themselves to be successful advocates,” Dershowitz said. “Look, I think all presidents want to have trusted people in the Justice Department.”

However, Dershowitz also indicated that Trump’s onetime defenders will have a different relationship with the president-elect when placed in their government roles. Similar to how Trump’s former attorneys general, Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions, fell out of favor with Trump after the pair each challenged his demands, Bondi or the others could meet similar fates.

“The job of Attorney General is impossible because it merges both a political job requiring loyalty with a prosecutorial job requiring complete objectivity, and no human being is capable of doing that,” Dershowitz said.

Trump’s aggressive law enforcement plans include deporting millions of illegal immigrants and quashing national diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. But Trump’s DOJ will also run the president-elect’s revenge tour, which will involve targeting the DOJ officials who investigated and prosecuted Trump, pardoning what Trump has described as a “large portion” of Jan. 6 defendants, and digging up any evidence of fraud from the 2020 election, which Trump continues to falsely claim he won.

Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, whom Trump named as the No. 2 and No. 3 leaders under Bondi at the DOJ, will be behind the scenes running that show and will face pressure to carry out the plans in a manner that can survive scrutiny from judges.

Blanche and Bove developed their bona fides by defending Trump in his criminal cases and were primarily involved in leading Trump’s legal team in New York. ......................................................... SNIP

TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: lawfare

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1 posted on 11/24/2024 8:37:35 AM PST by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

If there are not severe consequences then the lawfare will continue. There is no choice other than fully taking out the vultures from DOJ/FBI.

2 posted on 11/24/2024 8:37:48 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

To: MtnClimber

We need to capture some of them before they escape to the tall grass. They’ve begun scattering like rabbits.

3 posted on 11/24/2024 8:38:58 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (This Thanksgiving, spay and neuter your liberal RAT family members.)

To: FlingWingFlyer

wascawe wabbits! not sure how far they’ll get because Pam Bondi is no elmer fudd.

4 posted on 11/24/2024 8:41:51 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )

To: MtnClimber

Make Matt Gaetz the replacement for Smith as Special Prosecutor.

5 posted on 11/24/2024 8:45:36 AM PST by Eli Kopter

To: MtnClimber

FTA:

and digging up any evidence of fraud from the 2020 election, which Trump continues to falsely claim he won.

This is all we need to know about Ashley Oliver, the writer of the article, and his talking points.

6 posted on 11/24/2024 8:48:42 AM PST by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun. Right foot! Left foot! Thank God for guns! --Denny Crane)

To: MtnClimber

That’s right. There is no other choice.

7 posted on 11/24/2024 8:48:57 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)

To: MtnClimber

Everyone will be thrilled if Pam Bondi just goes with total objectivity. If the evidence in the cases we want brought doesn’t speak for itself, nothing will.

8 posted on 11/24/2024 8:50:50 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)

To: Eli Kopter

Welcome to FR. Great screen name, BTW.

9 posted on 11/24/2024 8:52:26 AM PST by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun. Right foot! Left foot! Thank God for guns! --Denny Crane)

To: MtnClimber

I want to emphasize that this is not revenge. It’s a war the Dems started, and Trump intends to finish it. And I think his goal is unconditional surrender.

10 posted on 11/24/2024 8:53:50 AM PST by The_Harlequin (…the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, wi)

To: 4Runner

Oh. I gues Ashley Oliver is a “her”. My bad.

11 posted on 11/24/2024 8:53:58 AM PST by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun. Right foot! Left foot! Thank God for guns! --Denny Crane)

To: 4Runner

Oh. I guess “Ashley Oliver” is a “she”. My bad.

12 posted on 11/24/2024 8:54:49 AM PST by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun. Right foot! Left foot! Thank God for guns! --Denny Crane)

To: bigbob

I agree with objectivity if it includes SWAT raids at 4 a.m. with the FIB perp handcuffed naked in the street in front of their house until the morning rush hour traffic is over.

13 posted on 11/24/2024 9:00:41 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

To: Qwapisking

LOL! Excellent. O’Bamma’s “17 intelligence communities” that cry their asses off every time Trump wins. They are having the same nightmares Hillary Clintoon is having about what could happen to her if a fair and uncorrupt judicial system is ever established in this country again.

14 posted on 11/24/2024 9:01:24 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (This Thanksgiving, spay and neuter your liberal RAT family members.)

To: MtnClimber

LOL. Bondi is a bimbo. She will only ingratiate herself to her new “colleagues”at DOJ.
The fact is Bondi and many other AGs went after physicians for opioid prescribing against so called pill mills that were instead innocent physicians doing their job taking care of chronic pain patients. It was convenient for a lot of these AGs to do that because of the fake narrative that prescription opioids caused ODs when it was really the fentanyl coming across the border via the cartels.
Trump never understood this. I believe that Gaetz had the requisite amount of antipathy against DOJ and would have nuked them. Bondi is just climbing up the greasy pole.

15 posted on 11/24/2024 9:06:20 AM PST by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)

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