One Step Closer

"Make sure government officials know they can corruptly line their pockets so long as they kiss the ring?" - Check

Trump has now implemented chapter 4 from "How to Be an Authoritarian": assure all other government officials that if they cooperate with you they will be effectively immune from federal criminal prosecution for bribery and corruption (and, presumably, other malfeasance). DOJ orders the US Attorney for SDNY to drop the bribery and corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York; Mayor Adams allows ICE agents into the Rikers Island detention center. Nice!

US Attorney Danielle Sassoon's resignation letter to A.G. Bondi in the Eric Adams is a small masterpiece of legal writing and legal reasoning, and a very, very serious indictment of the DOJ's actions here. Please do read it for yourself.  [UPDATE: Apparently this is paywalled; here is an unpaywalled copy of Sassoon's letter]

We sure are lucky to have a President who took such a strong stand against the "weaponization" of the Department of Justice.