The Department of Justice becomes the just department of the United States under Trump

When New York City Eric Adams He was a candidate for mayor four years ago, made an effort to appeal to the progressive base of the city. He declared In 2021, for example, “I do not want or need the support of Tucker Carlson, or any other person who perpetuates racist and anti -immigrant propaganda.”

This year, however, ADAMS decided that it would be intelligent Sit for an interview with Carlson.

It was part of a bigger and subtle effort. After the Democratic mayor was accused by federal prosecutors In corruption positionsAnd after Donald Trump won a second mandate in the White House, Adams began to try to heal with the incublican administration in his allies. Many observers reached a fairly obvious conclusion: the mayor seemed to be inclined to a presidential forgiveness or a dismissal of his case.

The law professor at the University of Michigan, Barbara Mcquade, former US prosecutor and legal analyst at MSNBC, written down a couple of weeks ago that “it would be a bad look” for the Department of Justice to eliminate an important case of public corruption after the mayor showed “public support to Trump.”

He was right, of course, but it seems that the Trump administration was not worried about appearances. NBC News reported:

In normal circumstances, prosecutors retreat an accusation when they have concerns about the merits of the case, the reliability of the evidence or probability of a conviction. However, in the case of Adams, the Department of Justice instead indicated the next Adams re -election offer, why that would be relevant is still clear, and the mayor’s willingness to work with the administration on matters related to politics of immigration and crimes.

Mcquade He told Wall Street Journal that the developments send the message that “public officials who support Trump’s agenda will leave prison.”

And that is, ultimately, what makes the history of Adams so significant for a national hearing: the president and his appointed politicians in the Department of Justice not only seem to be letting the policy guide tax decisions, but also that Nor do they seem to be making a great effort to hide their motivations.

The transition is effectively complete. The Department of Justice is now the just department of the United States.

• Adams’s case collapsed a day later Trump forgiven Former Governor Rob Blagojevich, an ex -convict whose crimes are synonyms for Illinois’ corrupt politics, but also aligned with the president.
• Trump Department of Justice recently abandoned charges against the former coacked of the President in the case of classified documents.
• Federal prosecutors recently left the criminal case against a former Republican congressman who had already been convicted of corruption by a jury.
• Trump Department of Justice too He took measures to abandon criminal investigation against a regular republican congressman.

All these developments, of course, coincide with an aggressive campaign to Purge the application of federal law of Tax and FBI officials who worked in cases that the president does not like. He efforts are OngoingAnd according to the president’s public comments, they are Probably get worse.

Taken individually, disparate stories are terrifying and irritating. But together, an even more disturbing image appears: they are not disparate stories. They are the same story.

As Oscar Raimundo Benavides, the fascist dictator of Peru in the 1930s, he said: “For my friends, everything; For my enemies, the law “.

In addition, none of this is a secret. In fact, according to all appearances, the shameless is part of the point: it seems that Trump and his team want the political world to know that those who expect to find the Federal Police favor should play ball with the White House and its agenda .

Similarly, the president and his operation also want prosecutors to know that if they present cases against those aligned with Trump, the only people who will be punished are those who try to enforce the law.

The New York Times’ David French recently noticed“There is a very real question about whether the federal law will apply to Trump’s allies during Trump’s mandate. The atmosphere of impunity may be nothing we have seen in our lives.”

The message to those aligned with the White House could not be clearer: they can do whatever they want, without taking into account the legal limits, knowing that the president, himself a convicted criminal, has created an area free of responsibility for him and for those who agree to follow him.

The result is an unlikely crisis in the modern history of the United States.

This publication updates our Related previous coverage.