The Department of Justice’s leaders caved to pressure from President Trump to weaponize the agency against his perceived political enemies
This is far from business as usual Noah Bookbinder, CREW HQ From: info@citizensforethics.org To: Joseph Tue, Dec 9 2025 at 10:02 AM Joseph, Over the past few months, we’ve seen the Department of Justice’s leaders cave to pressure from President Trump to weaponize the agency against his perceived political enemies. This has led to the indictments of James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. As a former federal corruption prosecutor, my experience tells me that this is not, despite skeptics’ assertions, “the same thing that Democrats did to Trump.” As I wrote about in my op-ed for The Hill, these prosecutions are different because of how they happened—and they're deserving of attention and outrage. While prosecutions under other administrations were driven by the law and by significant evidence, these prosecutions followed Trump’s own calls for indictments. Trump personally called for prosecutions on social media, declaring ...
