“Trump plans to use Justice Department to investigate 2020 election – WP Donald Trump intends to fire Special Counsel Jack Smith’s entire team and create investigative teams into the 2020 election case. Plans to reorganize the US Ministry of Justice are based on the ex-president’s personal grievances.”, — write on: unn.ua
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Trump, in particular, “plans to assemble investigative teams at the Justice Department to look for evidence in contested states that fraud tainted the 2020 election,” one of the people said.
The proposals offer new evidence that Trump’s drive to dramatically upend the status quo in Washington is likely to center heavily on the Justice Department, the nation’s top law enforcement agency, and that at least part of his agenda is fueled not by ideology or political goals but by personal grudges. the publication notes.
Once again president, Trump “wants to purge the ‘bad guys, the people who persecuted me,'” said one person familiar with the plans.
This person said the idea of creating investigative teams of federal agents and prosecutors in the disputed states is less well-articulated and “not a priority” — unlike the president-elect’s oft-stated desire to clean up the Justice Department. Trump reiterated that goal Thursday after his first choice for attorney general, former congressman Matt Goetz, withdrew his candidacy.
Asked about Trump’s plans to fire prosecutors from Smith’s team and focus on the 2020 election investigation, Trump’s spokeswoman repeated the president-elect’s frequent claim that the Justice Department’s cases against him were politically motivated.
“President Trump campaigned to free the rogue bureaucrats who illegally weaponized our American justice system, and the American people can expect him to keep that promise,” spokeswoman Carolyn Leavitt said in a statement. “One of the many reasons President Trump won the election by a landslide is that Americans are tired of seeing their tax dollars spent on prosecuting the political enemies of the Biden-Harris administration, rather than on the real violent criminals on our streets.”
After this article was originally published, Trump’s team sent another statement to Leavitt. “President Trump and his transition team are speaking on his behalf, and anonymous sources unrelated to him have no idea what they’re talking about,” it said.
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