Donald Trump came to power for the second time with a plan to take revenge on anyone who tried to hold him accountable.
Trump has loaded the DOJ with loyalists and tried to turn the country’s top federal law enforcement officers into his personal law firm, which he planned to use to exact revenge.
What Trump has tried to do is a blatant abuse of power.
It used to be virtually unheard of that the Justice Department would take a case to a grand jury and walk away empty-handed, but what was previously unprecedented has increasingly become the norm under Donald Trump.
The president has sought to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud, as James successfully secured 34 fraud convictions against Trump and his company in New York.
The first charge against James was dismissed out of court, so the DOJ tried again, but this time it didn’t get past the grand jury stage.
The Justice Department again failed to indict New York Attorney General James on Thursday — the second time in as many weeks it has tried to revive a mortgage fraud case against her amid President Donald Trump’s push to prosecute his political opponents.
A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, rejected federal prosecutors’ latest attempt to indict James, according to a person familiar with the proceedings who was granted anonymity to discuss the case.
For those keeping score, that’s one dismissed case and two failed attempts at charges by Trump’s DOJ.
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