Over-Politicizing the Office
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Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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9/20/25Brazenly directed AG Pam Bondi to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on unspecified charges despite any evidence that she committed any crime whatsoever
Flagrantly weaponized the Department of Justice by manufacturing a mortgage-fraud scandal against Fed Governor Lisa Cook in an attempt to remove her from the Federal Reserve and replace her with one of his lackeys
According to news reports from credible media outlets -
Ed MartinActing U.S. Attorney
2/24/25Overruled D.C. police who wanted to charge MAGA Rep. Cory Mills [R-FL] with physically assaulting his 27-year-old paramour and refused to sign an arrest warrant they asked to execute against the Congressman
According to an exclusive report by NBC4 Washington -
1/29/25Ordered the Pentagon's inspector general to launch a politicized investigation into the "conduct" of retired Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley despite their being no credible allegations of official or unofficial misconduct ever leveled against General Milley
According to news reports from credible media outlets -
James McHenryActing Trump AG
1/27/25Opened a sham investigation to harass apolitical career prosecutors who worked on Trump's criminal cases after baselessly firing them simply because they did their jobs
According to news reports from credible media outlets -
12/02/24Ginned up a phony investigation to smear Joe Biden during an election year with constant and easily disproved propaganda over relatively minor, rarely prosecuted offenses committed by his son Hunter that presumably led to the overturning of a no jail plea deal by a Republican prosecutor and Trump appointed judge
According to news reports from credible media outlets -
Tina PetersCounty Clerk [R-CO]
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8/13/24Allowed an unauthorized individual to make copies of voting machine hard drives and attend a voting machine software update intended only for credentialed election officials
According to charging documents filed by the Colorado Attorney General -
9/12/23Ordered a politicized impeachment inquiry to shamelessly smear President Biden with ridiculous claims to appease Donald Trump and House MAGA House extremists (with leverage to remove him as Speaker) and presumably to also distract from the myriad of real crimes committed by Trump and his associates
According to reporting by mainstream outlets -
9/07/23Opened a sham investigation into Jack Smith's prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators based on ridiculous claims from a lawyer involved in the case presumably to hinder it
According to an exclusive report by NBC News -
8/24/23Opened a baseless investigation into Georgia prosecutor who Fanni Willis who filed criminal charges against Donald Trump and 18 others presumably to deflect attention away from the many crimes Trump committed
According to a press release by the Republican led House Judiciary Committee -
Harry SidhuFmr. Mayor [R-CA]21 Years in GOP
8/16/23Unsuccessfully solicited an illegal $1 million campaign contribution from executives with the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for giving them confidential information to help boost their negotiation position with the sale of their stadium and then lied to federal officials when they confronted him
According to charging documents filed by federal officials -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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7/07/23Pushed the IRS to open investigations on FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in violation of a federal law that prohibits a President from "directly or indirectly" ordering the IRS to investigate or audit individual people
According to a sworn statement by former White House chief of staff John Kelly -
6/05/23Weaponized his GOP committee by threatening FBI Director Christopher Wray with an unprecedented charge of contempt of Congress to get access to a document discredited as not reliable enough to pursue as part of a shameless political smear campaign and sham investigation against Joe Biden without regard to protecting the identities of redacted sources
According to voluminous reports filed by mainstream media outlets -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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5/22/23Pushed the Justice Department to keep open a political investigation looking into the Clinton Foundation long after it became abundantly clear no wrongdoing was found by investigators
According to an exclusive report by The New York Times -
Bill BarrFmr. U.S. Att. General [R]Lauded by Trump
4/02/23Helped Donald Trump avoid any accountability by asserting federal jurisdiction and ordering Manhattan DA CY Vance to "stand down" in his investigation into Donald Trump's secret payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the months before the 2016 Presidential election in a blatant attempt to prevent the damning details about Trump from becoming public
According to an exclusive Meet The Press interview with Manhattan DA Cy Vance -
2/22/23Gave Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of January 6 insurrection footage captured by surveillance cameras throughout the Capitol complex despite the very real possibility that sensitive information pertaining to the security of the Capitol could be made public
According to an exclusive report by Axios -
2/22/23Refused to publicly release a final report his own staff spent 10,000 hours on that debunked 2020 election conspiracy theories because it didn't back up his claim that the election was rife with fraud after he publicly claimed he had found "serious vulnerabilities" in the voting system which wasn't true
According to documents released by his successor and reported on by The Washington Post -
Wisconsin GOP
2/03/23Spent over $2 million in taxpayer dollars investigating ludicrous claims of voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election and quietly closed the investigation after failing to find any credible instances of fraud
According to a report by Wisconsin Public Radio -
Bill BarrFmr. U.S. Att. General [R]Lauded by Trump
1/26/23Repeatedly injected himself into special counsel John Durham's political investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia scandal in order to help Trump and discredit his detractors which led to his second in command resigning in protest and another taking a new job outside of the investigation
According to an exclusive report by The New York Times -
Aileen CannonFederal Judge [R]
9/05/22Issued an egregiously bad ruling that helped protect Donald Trump by hamstringing the FBI's ability to reclaim classified government documents he illegally took with him to Mar-a-Lago by appointing a "special master" to review the documents before they could examine them further which was later overturned unanimously by one of the most conservative appeals courts in the country
According to a ruling in Trump's favor handed down by Judge Cannon -
2/11/21Accepted thousands of dollars' worth of home remodeling and repairs in addition to securing employment for a woman he was having an affair with from wealthy real estate developer Nate Paul in exchange for investigating Paul's business adversaries and helping him settle a lawsuit in his favor
According to an official complaint filed by seven of Paxton's top aides -
Andy StricklandFmr. Sheriff [R-SC]
10/23/20Made police deputies and other staff members perform non-work services for his personal businesses, at his private property and for his political campaign during their regular work hours
According to charging documents filed by local officials -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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8/28/20Gave his 2020 Republican acceptance speech from the White House lawn in what one expert described as an “abomination” that “may be the most visible misuse of official position for private gain in America’s history”
According to multiple experts on the law and government regulations -
Todd CourserFmr. State Representative
9/16/19Engaged in an extramarital affair with fellow state representative Cindy Gamrat and then concocted a wild story that alleged he solicited a male prostitute to keep their affair from becoming public which he then lied about under oath to a state House committee investigating whether he used state resources to conceal the affair
According to charging documents filed by state officials -
10/12/15Created a politicized special committee into the 2012 Benghazi attacks -- three years after the attacks happened -- that was designed to undermine Hillary Clinton's standing with the public just as she ramped up her Presidential campaign
According to reporting by all major mainstream outlets -
Tom HorneFmr. Att. General [R-AZ]
5/08/14Operated his re-election campaign from his taxpayer-funded office in the state capitol and used government staff to help him raise money and do other campaign-related work
According to an official complaint filed by a former staff member
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