Trump will impose his 'warped reality' by prosecuting his enemies: experts
Donald Trump could impose his "warped reality" on his political enemies by corrupting the Department of Justice, warned a group of experts.
The former president continues to insist he was cheated out of an election win in 2020 and has escalated his threats to prosecute supposedly "corrupt election officials” lawyers, donors and others he has already blamed for his potential defeat in November, and former high-ranking government officials and legal experts are taking him seriously, reported The Guardian.
“Donald Trump is making many public threats to use the legal system to punish his enemies, which seems to be anyone who opposes him,” said the former deputy attorney general Donald Ayer, who served under George H.W. Bush. “This conduct is utterly without precedent in campaign history, threatens all of our freedoms, and violates our basic rule of law.”
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The DOJ's core values are stated as “independence and impartiality," but Trump promises to subvert those if re-elected to a second term and staff that agency and others with loyalists hand-selected by his allies at the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which produced the extremist Project 2025 blueprint for reshaping the federal government.
“Trump will use the power of the federal government, and especially DoJ, to intimidate and possibly prosecute all sorts of political opponents he deems hostile to him,” said former Republican representative Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania. “That’s one of the many reasons he’s unfit to be president.”
Trump has already enlisted the Fraternal Order of Police to help "watch for the voter fraud" he already seems to believe will occur in this year's election, despite no evidence of widespread fraud four years ago, and he warned in a Sept. 7 post on Truth Social that he would prosecute "those people that CHEATED ... to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again.”
“Trump is threatening to prosecute those who stole the election from him in his warped reality,” said former federal prosecutor Paul Rosenzweig. "His threats to undermine the rule of law have escalated. Trump is no conservative, he’s a radical. There’s a reason why we have a long tradition of trying to isolate the attorney general from political influence.”