Readers may recall I mentioned a DoJ official by the name of Emil Bove as being a likely candidate for being in the news just a day or two ago. Lo and behold, he’s begun fulfilling my open-ended prophecy / prediction:
Veteran [DoJ] prosecutor Denise Cheung’s resignation came in response to a Justice Department effort to assist President Donald Trump’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who said last week that he would try to rescind $20 billion in grants awarded by the Biden administration for climate and clean-energy projects, according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Cheung wrote in her resignation letter that while she and the FBI asked the bank handling the disbursements to freeze the assets immediately, she refused a last-minute order from interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin to compel the bank to do so. This demand came after the office of acting deputy attorney general Emil S. Bove requested she open what she considered an unfounded criminal investigation into the matter, according to a resignation letter obtained by The Washington Post. [WaPo]
Speaking of weaponization of the DoJ, as the Republicans often do, it seems like Bove is trying to use his very own spanner to do just that.
Incidentally, while prediction is really mundane, prophecy suggests the Divine may be out to get Bove. I give him the liberty of deciding which term should be used here.
