The left is feeling a bit antsy because President Trump, the Mendacity Machine, is making threatening noises.
Trump: "It was a rigged election. Everyone knows that, they found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It's probably breaking news, but it should be. It was a rigged election."
In case the above disappears:
Trump: “It was a rigged election. Everyone knows that, they found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It’s probably breaking news, but it should be. It was a rigged election.”
Here’s the thing about prosecutors: if they are caught abusing their office, they are well-aware that they could do a stretch in prison and maybe even lose their law license. Hence the reference to self-preservation, above.
So if & when President Trump tries to pressure Federal prosecutors to go after those he considers his enemies, he may run into difficulties because the prosecutors, along with often having a sense of honor, or at least discretion for future business, also don’t want to risk going to prison just to bring false charges against the President’s enemies.
Keep in mind how Trump has already seen a veritable flood of quality prosecutors abruptly resign rather than take that risk, along with the more honorable reasons as well – I actually suspect most or all have reasons in the honorable category, rather than the risk category. Trump was reduced to nominating Lindsey Halligan, whose previous experience was in insurance, was rejected by a collection of judges as U.S. Attorney and, on January 20th, left her untenable position. If he orders more abuses by prosecutors he may see Bondi’s DoJ empty into a shell. It’ll be Bondi and Washington, DC U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and a lot of empty desks. Would Pirro do Trump’s bidding? Hard to say, she’s had many failures atypical for her office since she began her service, and she may decide No more!
I suspect the threats, above, are another smoke screen to conceal the President’s consistent and long string of failures, this time in Davos, Switzerland, concerning Greenland and NATO, as I mentioned here. He’s trying to put critics on their back foot with all the smoke, but continuing to expose his duplicity is the way forward.
The smoke is getting thick, let’s try not to stumble off a cliff.
