Here’s Trump talking about the big law firms bowing and scraping. It’s just sad:
How noble. Here’s where that stands:
In an executive order signed Monday, President Donald Trump instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to help defend police officers named in civil rights lawsuits. According to the order, whatever system the Justice Department creates “shall include the use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such law enforcement officers.”
The order does not explicitly direct any particular law firm to do anything. However, following previous executive orders targeting a number of elite firms, nine have agreed to deals with the president and collectively agreed to provide $940 million in pro bono legal services to support the president’s priorities.
Maybe they should just do a shitty job?
The point of the executive order is to “unleash” the police to crack down on the American people as any good fascist dictator would do:
When local leaders demonize law enforcement and impose legal and political handcuffs that make aggressively enforcing the law impossible, crime thrives and innocent citizens and small business owners suffer. My Administration will therefore: establish best practices at the State and local level for cities to unleash high-impact local police forces; protect and defend law enforcement officers wrongly accused and abused by State or local officials; and surge resources to officers in need. My Administration will work to ensure that law enforcement officers across America focus on ending crime, not pursuing harmful, illegal race- and sex-based “equity” policies.
The result will be a law-abiding society in which tenacious law enforcement officers protect the innocent, violations of law are not tolerated, and American communities are safely enjoyed by all their citizens again.
He’s trying to convince the American people that they are living in El Salvador 2019 when it was the murder capital of the world under siege from gangs. I suppose that his rural base, which has probably never seen a latino gang member, believes that US cities are a war zone but that doesn’t make it true.
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Can Trump defy reality and turn the country into Bukele’s El Salvador without the actual high crime that existed there? It looks like we’re going to find out. And he’s extorted the country’s most prestigious law firms into helping him do it.