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To: M. Murray who wrote (539162)	9/20/2025 11:17:15 PM
From: zax	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541487

>> Personally, I don't think trump will take down democracy. Trump demands Bondi prosecute political foes in Truth Social posts washingtonpost.com The messages came after he forced out a U.S. attorney in Virginia who declined to pursue charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey. President Donald Trump demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi move swiftly to prosecute several political opponents in a series of extraordinary social media posts Saturday, a breakdown of traditional fire walls that have existed between the White House and Justice Department on prosecutorial discretion. He urged the prosecutions of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), former FBI director James B. Comey and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California), claiming all three were “guilty as hell” and that his supporters were noting “nothing has been done.” Comey and James were both investigated but ultimately not charged by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia this year. Both have denied any wrongdoing. “We cant delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” Trump said in one message to Bondi. “They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” Trump’s messages were one of his most overt attempts to date to override the traditional restraints on the president’s involvement in law enforcement investigations after months of calling for criminal charges against those he perceives as political enemies. It comes a day after he called for the ouster of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik S. Siebert, who resigned amid pressure over his decision not to seek indictments against Comey and James. In one of the posts, Trump announced he intends to nominate Lindsey Halligan, a White House adviser and his former personal lawyer, to be the U.S. attorney in that high-profile office based in Alexandria. Halligan, a former Florida insurance lawyer who joined Trump’s personal legal team in 2022 and was at his Mar-a-Lago compound when the FBI executed a search warrant in its classified records investigation, is the White House adviser tasked with removing “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. She has no prior experience as a prosecutor. “She will be Fair, Smart, and will provide desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!” Trump said on Truth Social. Siebert’s resignation Friday after eight months as interim leader came after he decided not to pursue a mortgage fraud indictment against James, citing insufficient evidence. Siebert, a Trump appointee who was initially recommended by advisers to Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), also recently declined to prosecute Comey. Before Siebert resigned, his chief deputy, who would traditionally have assumed the role, was also demoted, leaving the leadership of the Alexandria-based office in question. Earlier Saturday, the Justice Department installed an acting U.S. attorney, Mary M. “Maggie” Cleary, who most recently had been working in the Justice Department’s criminal division and before that worked as a local prosecutor in Northern Virginia. In an essay published this year, Cleary claimed she had been “framed” as having participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — an incident, she said, that ended with her being cleared by investigators and spurring her to apply for a U.S. attorney position. In an email to staff Saturday, Cleary described her appointment as “unexpected” but told employees she was “humbled to be joining” their ranks, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post. She did not respond to an emailed request for comment. James and her attorneys have described the investigation into her real estate dealings as baseless and a brazen example of the Trump administration using the Justice Department to seek “political retribution.” A separate mortgage fraud accusation against Schiff relates to a home he purchased in Maryland. James secured a civil fraud judgment against Trump and representatives of his real estate empire last year, and since his return to the White House, James has joined several lawsuits challenging his administration’s policies. One social media post addressed to Bondi on Saturday specifically linked Siebert’s ouster to the decision not to pursue charges against James and Comey, while insisting Siebert had not quit but was fired. Chief among those calling for Siebert’s termination was Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, according to multiple people familiar with those discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail the internal debate. It was Pulte who initially alleged in April that James falsely listed a Norfolk home as her principal residence on a 2023 mortgage application to receive more favorable terms. Her attorney, Abbe Lowell, has dismissed the error as a paperwork mistake — one James quickly sought to correct in an email to her mortgage broker around the time of the purchase. In a statement Friday, Lowell called the campaign to oust Siebert “a brazen attack on the rule of law.” “Firing people until he finds someone who will bend the law to carry out his revenge has been the President’s pattern — and it’s illegal,” Lowell said. “Punishing this prosecutor, a Trump appointee, for doing his job sends a clear and chilling message that anyone who dares uphold the law over politics will face the same fate.”

To: M. Murray who wrote (539162)	9/21/2025 12:52:02 AM
From: Gary Mohilner	Respond to of 541487

I don't disagree with all you're saying. Unfortunately, he has just enough Republicans who believe he has the power to keep them employed, they're called Congressmen. They need to recognize that their Emperor has no clothes. I believe that we should have a Democratic landslide next year, but that's if the election is fair. Trump will cheat in any way he possibly can, and I don't know that it's completely possible to stop it. If he finds a way to declare marshal law prior to the election it's hard to say that all ballots will find the ballot box. The man is ordering that all his political enemies be brought to trial, people like Adam Schiff who's on the enemy's list for the impeachments, etc. As close as he is to his Attorney General, if she fails to charge him with something, she'll probably be looking for another job. Of course no convictions would occur, it would only make them look more foolish, but we know they're fools. The MAGA people seem to eat this stuff up. I would hope that our military leaders wouldn't take illegal orders, even if they came directly from Trump, but we had active duty people here in L.A. for the most part they stood around Federal bldgs. that weren't threatened at all, but I still believe it was illegal, yet they took his order. The courts can take years, and as long as the Supreme's won't shut him down, generally sending things to lower courts to review in greater depth before making an actual decision, they generally leave his orders in place until they've made it through all the courts. I don't mind ICE dealing with people who've been guilty of more than entering the US illegally, a misdemeanor, but most of the people being arrested aren't hard criminals, most have no records at all, they're respected in the community. They're mostly hard working people often doing jobs that others don't want to do. As far as I'm concerned, alien criminals in our court system should be turned over to ICE, but only if they're actually guilty of the crimes, or it's proven that they were criminals where they came from. The fact that an alien is in a courthouse doesn't say anything, if they come to court to be tried, and their guilty of something significant, then let ICE deal with them. I consider a DUI significant, but not driving a few miles over the speed limit. I think the judge should make the determination, not some sanctuary city rule that says no cooperation, or a rule that says every alien, innocent or guilty of anything shall be turned over. But don't let ICE bully there way in, or waylay people at the court, cooperate with them when someone rightfully should be deported, and no other time. Trump lied when he said how many true alien criminals are in the US, but he's virtually arresting and deporting practically everyone ICE can find. I don't believe that's what most of his biggest fans want, especially if they've tried to wash their car, etc and found that most carwashes are closed. I'd rather have people come here legally, but we really need most who're already here, who're working in their communities, and who could find citizens willing to sponsor them through a program that allows them to be here and ultimately become citizens, that's what we need from the legislature, not ICE acting like their Gestapo. Gary