Trump 2.0 - DOJ and related

The real politicalization of the DOJ.  It is a part of the Trump revenge tour. 

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-adams-emil-bove-sdny-justice-dept

There was a time, not that long ago, when—together—Emil Bove, Hagan Scotten, and Danielle Sassoon were considered to be among the brightest stars at the Justice Department’s most prestigious office, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, or SDNY. Scotten was a war hero and former clerk for the Supreme Court’s chief justice. Bove had made an almost unheard of climb from paralegal to prosecutor and then unit co-chief. Sassoon, Bove’s protégé and a former Supreme Court clerk for Antonin Scalia, seemed destined for higher things still.

Last week, they openly went to war—against one another. Sassoon and Scotten resigned, as did a number of prosecutors in Washington, ostensibly over the handling of a single case: that of New York mayor Eric Adams. But after talking to a number of sources on every side of this, it’s become clear the ultimate stakes are far higher. Their fight has ballooned into a fight over, among other things, the notion that the Justice Department and its prosecutors should be at all independent from the president’s will. SDNY has a well-earned reputation as the “sovereign district,” immune to any pressures from Washington. But in the second Trump administration, there is no room for two sovereigns.

Trump ran on a platform of retribution against perceived enemies who he says “weaponized” the justice system against him. “The fact that Danielle and then Hagan would rather resign than take a prosecutorial action based on politics” puts the lie to that claim, says Brett Kalikow, their former Southern District colleague, noting he was speaking only from his personal perspective. “To me [their resignations] validated the fact that DOJ and SDNY, as I had always known it, had integrity, were not political institutions, and that all of the accusations of ‘weaponization’ were just false, and were cover for what I think this administration was planning to do when it took power.”
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They probably needed to scrub Trump's name from many of the documents.   :dunno

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5172660-attorney-general-pam-bondi-epstein-files/

Attorney General Pam Bondi was duped into thinking she had all the files related to investigations into disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, she told Fox News host Mark Levin over the weekend while defending Thursday’s widely mocked document dump.

“I kept saying, there has to be more. There has to be more,” Bondi said Saturday. “I was assured that’s it.

Epstein, who hobnobbed with celebrities, royalty and other powerful people, died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Bondi said she found out from a “whistleblower” after releasing 100 pages of flight logs and Epstein’s contact lists that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is “sitting on thousands of pages of documents” that had not been handed over to her. She is now seeking additional information through the FBI.

Bondi vowed that Americans will eventually see “the full Epstein files.”

“We will get everything,” she told Levin. “We will have it in our possession. We will redact it, of course, to protect grand jury information and confidential witnesses, but American people have a right to know.”
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