Trump DOJ Fires Jan. 6 Prosecutors, Top FBI Agents While Threatening Larger Purge | Common Dreams

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump also pardoned all approximately 1,500 people involved in the January 6 insurrection on his first day in office.
51% : " Progressive political commenter Thom Hartmann urged U.S. citizens to call their representatives.
45% : "All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution," Patel told the Senate.
44% : "Trump wants to send the message to the police and federal officers that the law doesn't apply to Trump and his enablers.
41% : "If true, these outrageous actions by acting officials are fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents," the association said.
41% : " "The loyal friend of autocrats, kleptocrats, oligarchs, and broligarchs, Trump doesn't care about the requirements of democracy, national security, and public safety," Raskin continued.
39% : Also on Friday, an email sent to FBI employees told them that acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, who previously represented Trump in the cases against him, had requested a list of everyone who had worked on January 6 cases "to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary.
39% : "This is a shameless act of political retribution that weakens federal law enforcement and the rule of law.
32% : "Unelected Trump lackeys are carrying out widespread political retribution against our nation's career law enforcement officials.
31% : Trump, meanwhile, said on Friday that he was not aware of the firings, but added, "If they fired some people over there, that's a good thing, because they were very bad.
24% : President Trump would rather have the FBI and DOJ full of blind admirers and loyalists than experienced law enforcement officers.
21% : " Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) also decried the firings and cast doubt on the integrity of Bondi and Patel, whom Trump had tapped to lead the DOJ and FBI respectively.
18% : Donald Trump is a lawless man who is ripping apart the FBI to turn it into a banana republic-style group of enforcing thugs who will only do his will," Hartmann wrote on his Substack Saturday morning.
12% : " The latest round of DOJ firings comes days after the Trump administration already fired a dozen lawyers who had helped bring Smith's two cases against Trump.

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