Trump Demands That AG Persecute/Prosecute His Political Enemies:
In a post on social media this weekend addressed to Bondi, Trump said “nothing is being done” on investigations into some of his foes.
“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” he said. Noting that he was impeached and criminally charged, “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
Trump has ratcheted up his discussion of pursuing legal cases against some of his political opponents, part of a vow for retribution that has been a theme of his return to the White House. He publicly pressed Bondi this weekend to move forward with such investigations.
Trump posted somewhat of an open letter on social media Saturday to his top prosecutor to advance such inquiries, including a mortgage fraud probe into New York Attorney General Letitia James and a possible threat case against former FBI Director James Comey.
“We have to act fast — one way or the other,” Trump told reporters later that night at the White House. “They’re guilty, they’re not guilty — we have to act fast. If they’re not guilty, that’s fine. If they are guilty or if they should be charged, they should be charged. And we have to do it now.”
Trump later wrote in a follow-up post that Bondi was “doing a GREAT job.”
Paul, a frequent Trump foil from the right, was asked during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” about the propriety of a president directing his attorney general to investigate political opponents. The senator decried “lawfare in all forms.”
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said it was “unconstitutional and deeply immoral for the president to jail or to silence his political enemies.” He warned it could set a worrisome precedent for both parties.
This comes after Trump fired a prosecutor for not going after his political enemies. Can we (or Chris Coons) call it Fascism yet? Oh, and along the same lines…
At the time, Homan was being floated for a top immigration job in the incoming administration and allegedly took the money from agents posing as businessmen in exchange for potentially helping the men land contracts related to immigration enforcement if Donald Trump won the election, the people said.
All I can say is, AYFKM? If that’s not a crime, then what exactly is? And yet:
“This blatantly political investigation, which found no evidence of illegal activity, is yet another example of how the Biden Department of Justice was using its resources to target President Trump’s allies rather than investigate real criminals and the millions of illegal aliens who flooded our country,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement. “Tom Homan has not been involved with any contract award decisions. He is a career law enforcement officer and lifelong public servant who is doing a phenomenal job on behalf of President Trump and the country.”
He took a bag of money in exchange for promising quid pro quos. Kermit Justice went to jail for that. Too bad he wasn’t around to accept his bag during the Trump years.
Even the Washington Post has noticed:
Other federal prosecutors in Maryland, Georgia and western Virginia who are currently handling politically sensitive probes may soon face similar pressure to fall in line.
“We’ve never seen anything even approaching this level of interference with the day-to-day job of prosecutors,” said Carol Lam, a former U.S. attorney in California, who served during the administration of President George W. Bush.
“Having personal vindictiveness steer prosecutions, you see that seeping down the ranks” of the Justice Department, she said. “And there appears to be no bottom.”
Think I’ve made my point.
Political Prisoner Freed In Cincinnati. After spending 70 days in jail. I guess we’re better than the Soviet Union only in the sense that he wasn’t poisoned while in jail:
An Egyptian chaplain whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court was released from an Ohio jail on Friday as the Department of Homeland Security abruptly withdrew its case against him.
The outcome is a victory for 51-year-old Ayman Soliman, a popular Muslim cleric whose hundreds of supporters include families he counseled at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The DHS move to restore his asylum status and drop deportation efforts comes after court filings documented errors and inconsistencies in the government’s evidence portraying him as a terrorist.
Just before 1 p.m., Soliman walked out of Butler County Jail with a broad smile and a plastic bag containing his belongings, a moment filmed by his friends and advocates. He had been scheduled for an immigration trial next week and faced deportation to Egypt, which he fled in 2014 because of political persecution.
A DHS official said immigration authorities “cannot discuss the details of individual immigration cases and adjudication decisions.” But the official added, “An alien — even with a pending application or lawful status — is not shielded from immigration enforcement action.” The agency is “responsible for administering America’s lawful immigration system, ensuring the integrity of the immigration process.”
You don’t need me to call ‘bullshit’ on that one.
After leaving the jail, Soliman joined Friday communal prayers at a local mosque, where an imam welcomed his release as a godsend and celebrated his friend as “a free man, as he always should be.”
Flanked by supporters at a news conference Friday evening, Soliman said he was still in disbelief that his day had begun in custody. He’d just come from a restaurant where he enjoyed “salad and fruit and meat” after weeks of jail food. He said he was “out of words” for the support system that sprang to his defense. He said he received 760 letters while in jail from people he’d never met.
“I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice.”
Our PAL Val’s Financial Shenanigans Being Investigated:
Delaware law enforcement is investigating the finances of a taxpayer-funded nonprofit that up until last month had been led by former Speaker of the House Valerie Longhurst, according to two independent sources with knowledge of the inquiry.
As part of the investigation, the New Castle County Police Department is probing how the nonprofit – called the Police Athletic League of Delaware – spent millions of taxpayer dollars it received in recent years, including federal COVID relief money, said the sources, who each requested anonymity due to the ongoing nature of the investigation.
The investigation began after Longhurst resigned as executive director of the Police Athletic League of Delaware last month. Spotlight Delaware previously reported that she stepped down after the nonprofit’s cash reserves had dwindled, and after lawmakers decided in July to freeze more than $500,000 in state grants awarded to the organization just a month earlier.
The PAL of Delaware, as it’s known, had received a record-high $5 million from taxpayers in 2024, as well as hundreds of thousands more in 2025.
The money from 2024 included $1.5 million from the federal government that then-Gov. John Carney’s office had distributed as part of its COVID relief efforts.
If authorities are serious about looking into Val’s financial ledger-demain, they will, they must investigate the state money that was dumped into the Underwater City At Fort DuPont. As should the State Auditor. I suspect what they find will make the (alleged) misdeeds at PAL look like chump change.
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