Where's the outrage?

[DraggonStone]

As an independent who is contemptuous of extremist politics from both sides, I can't help but notice that the Ds don't scream whitch hunt when one of their party are corrupt. Didn't hear shit about Mendendez from the Ds, not hearing shit from the Ds about obviously corrupt D Adams.
NEW YORK—The Justice Department’s order to dismiss charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams triggered a series of resignations Thursday and ignited a feud between top Trump appointees and career prosecutors.

The departures started with Danielle Sassoon, a longtime federal prosecutor who refused to comply with the demand to drop the Adams case. President Trump had elevated Sassoon to be the acting Manhattan U.S. attorney after he took office.


Others followed suit, including Kevin Driscoll, the senior-most career official in the Justice Department’s criminal division, and John Keller, head of the department’s public-integrity section. They left when it became clear they would be ordered to dismiss the case after Sassoon refused, people familiar with the matter said. Three other supervisors in the Justice Department’s public-integrity unit also resigned Thursday, one of the people said.


Sassoon wrote in a letter Wednesday to Emil Bove, the acting No. 2 official at the Justice Department: “Because the law does not support a dismissal, and because I am confident that Adams has committed the crimes with which he is charged, I cannot agree to seek a dismissal driven by improper considerations.”

 

[DeluxAuto]

As an independent

I can't help but notice that the Ds

Fuck off, MAGAT.

 

[Politruk]

Speculation is, Trump had the charges dropped because he wants Adams' cooperation in mass deportations.

We'll just have to see if such cooperation is forthcoming.

 

[TastySuckToy]

As an independent who is contemptuous of extremist politics from both sides, I can't help but notice that the Ds don't scream which hunt when one of their party are corrupt.

That's because all the Ds already know their entire party is corrupt, and any attempt on their part protesting corruption would shatter the mirror they're staring at with their growing nose.

 

[ll74]

As an independent who is contemptuous of extremist politics from both sides, I can't help but notice that the Ds don't scream which hunt when one of their party are corrupt. Didn't hear shit about Mendendez from the Ds, not hearing shit from the Ds about obviously corrupt D Adams.
NEW YORK—The Justice Department’s order to dismiss charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams triggered a series of resignations Thursday and ignited a feud between top Trump appointees and career prosecutors.

The departures started with Danielle Sassoon, a longtime federal prosecutor who refused to comply with the demand to drop the Adams case. President Trump had elevated Sassoon to be the acting Manhattan U.S. attorney after he took office.


Others followed suit, including Kevin Driscoll, the senior-most career official in the Justice Department’s criminal division, and John Keller, head of the department’s public-integrity section. They left when it became clear they would be ordered to dismiss the case after Sassoon refused, people familiar with the matter said. Three other supervisors in the Justice Department’s public-integrity unit also resigned Thursday, one of the people said.


Sassoon wrote in a letter Wednesday to Emil Bove, the acting No. 2 official at the Justice Department: “Because the law does not support a dismissal, and because I am confident that Adams has committed the crimes with which he is charged, I cannot agree to seek a dismissal driven by improper considerations.”

You don't hear it because the right is louder.

They cry when their party does things. They cry when our party does things. This forum is a good example. The right always needs to be the loudest. The left tends to take time to understand and react outside of the forums.

I don't give a shit about Adams. He's in New York and I don't live there. I'm busy working on getting a state congress in Ohio held to account....as they are truly shit. I have rarely posted here about it because it's not a national issue.

 

[ll74]

Hey, this is a fun one - the attorney told to drop charges against Adams has resigned....also...she said there was an offer made in exchange for the charges being dropped

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890133586960855253

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Looks like you found the poutrage.

 

[ll74]

They're booing the national anthem at the four nations tourney.

Canadians hate Americans thanks to 47

 

[Rotadom]

Didn't hear shit about Mendendez from the Ds

A Dem made a thread about here, .

And when did you become a fan of Adams?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Sassoon correctly identified a quid pro quo being tendered.

She asked why, if Pumpkinhead determined that Adams was "innocent" of the myriad of corruption charges against him, why didn't Pumpkinhead give him one of those Presidential pardon? After all, Pumpkinhead had every legal right to do so, since all of these charges against Adams were federal felonies.

Sassoon looked at the very precise wording of this "dismissal of charges" and noted that the Department of Justice verbiage explicitly stated they reserved the right to "reinstitute charges at ANY time".

This is a power play, clear and simple. Dismiss the charges against Adams, he'll turn over all NYC data related to evil brown people, and Pumpkinhead gets the credit for deporting half of NYC.

So far four federal ADAs (assistant district attorneys) have resigned rather than carry out this political hit job that may adversely impact their careers, and two other attorneys have been suspended. Bove tried to get ahold of the FIFTH person in the legal chain-of-command who can file the dismissal, she was "unavailable" (in active labor in an NYC hospital maternity ward).

Who knew creating a dictatorship from scratch would be so fecking complicated?

In any event, it is good to see that some attorneys still comport themselves with honor.

Far too many sketchy Derpy-class pettifoggers practicing law in the United States today.

 

[Politruk]

Hey, this is a fun one - the attorney told to drop charges against Adams has resigned....also...she said there was an offer made in exchange for the charges being dropped

Did she specify the terms of the offer?

Anything to do with deportations?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Did she specify the terms of the offer?

Anything to do with deportations?

Why yes! Yes indeed. Refer to my post directly above yours.

 

[Politruk]

Why yes! Yes indeed. Refer to my post directly above yours.

So Trump cares more about his hateful irrational xenophobic agenda than he cares about fighting corruption.

Where's the Republican outrage over that?!

 

[Politruk]

Speculation is, Trump had the charges dropped because he wants Adams' cooperation in mass deportations.

We'll just have to see if such cooperation is forthcoming.

I suspect it will be.

Because Adams did not get a pardon. The case against him was simply dismissed without prejudice and could be re-filed. It still hangs over him.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Trump ordered charges against Adams dismissed on MONDAY. It's now close-of-business FRIDAY in Washington DC and Deputy Attorney General Bove has been unable to find a federal attorney to appear in court to ask that the charges be dismissed.

This seems almost performative.

Bove is reduced to writing nasty emails to staff....he's having a Bobo-class temper tantrum. The guy does not seem well-suited for his position as an administrator. More of a political hack if you ask me....

 

[RobDownSouth]

Well hell, we now are up to SEVEN United States DOJ assistant district attorneys who have opted to resign their jobs rather than put their license to practice law at risk by obeying corrupt Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove's blatantly political "order" to dismiss corruption charges against NYC mayor Eric Adams.

President Pumpkinhead's stooges are not even trying to hide their motives.....Emil Bove admitted today that this dismissal had NOTHING to do with facts and/or interpretation of the law, it was being done solely to "do a deal" with Mayor Adams.

Obey or face charges. Lawfare at its finest.

Corrupt "Border Czar" Tom Homan, the former director of ICE who loathes black and brown people equally (he's the "tough guy" who got his "man card" pulled in an ill-advised attempt to intimidate AOC, who mocked him for the pathetic little beta male he is) actually bragged about the terms of this "deal" this morning.

Homan wants his own fiefdom at New York City's massive Rikers Island jail complex. Homan wants multiple wings of Rikers Island cellblocks exclusively reserved for ICE detainees at no cost to the federal government. NYC gets to staff the jail, provide beds, meals and medical assistance to these evildoers, and hold them indefinitely there until Homan decides when and where to deport them.

In return, New York City gets.....nothing. Mayor Eric Adams is given a temporary reprieve from his federal corruption charges, with the insinuation that if he "shuts his mouf an' knows his role" the charges will be dropped. Homan made sure to add on Fox and Friends that he'd bring the full force of the Federal government down on Adams' nasty black ass if he got uppity.
Fucking Banana Republics aren't this bad.

The latest attorney to resign under protest didn't hold back as he walked out of the DOJ in Manhattan this afternoon. Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten was the lead federal prosecutor in the Eric Adams corruption case.

Scotten unloaded....

No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.

Any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion.
But it was never going to be me.”

Going forward, the next time a MAGAt on the political board whines about "Lawfare", I'm going to respond "Hagan Scotten" and invite them to EABOD.

 

[Politruk]

So Trump cares more about his hateful irrational xenophobic agenda than he cares about fighting corruption.

Where's the Republican outrage over that?!

Where?!

 

[MajorRewrite]

The Clown Show Administration supports corruption, and the Democratic Party opposes corruption. It’s as simple as that.

Firestorm grows over Trump DOJ’s deal to drop charges against Eric Adams

The governor has the power to remove Adams from office and should do so.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Hey, this is a fun one - the attorney told to drop charges against Adams has resigned....also...she said there was an offer made in exchange for the charges being dropped

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890133586960855253

She was the only Trump appointee who isn’t corrupt! So she immediately resigned.

Sassoon had only been in the job for about three weeks, but she has impeccable conservative credentials as a member of the Federalist Society and former law clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5146646-trump-adams-case-backlash/

 

[Chernosoth]

The mayor could be pardoned or shot out of a cannon and make no difference to NYC circling the drain.

 

[PintlerMan]

this is what

Fuck off, MAGAT.

libtards do when they can answer simple questions, the loving and inclusive side as they claim, turn to vicious name calling and yelling, it's a played out play book play, and they always look bad, but they keep it up, as we laugh at them, because they are clowns, goofy people.

 

[ll74]

this is what

libtards do when they can answer simple questions, the loving and inclusive side as they claim, turn to vicious name calling and yelling, it's a played out play book play, and they always look bad, but they keep it up, as we laugh at them, because they are clowns, goofy people.

Neat

 

[Bn2f]

this is what

libtards do when they can answer simple questions, the loving and inclusive side as they claim, turn to vicious name calling and yelling, it's a played out play book play, and they always look bad, but they keep it up, as we laugh at them, because they are clowns, goofy people.

Here's a simple, easy question - Did you cast your vote for the United States to try and claim Canada as the 51st state?
What would you say to that if ANY candidate in American history had said that on the campaign trail?

 

[DeluxAuto]

Neat

It's very easy to trigger their hypocrisy.

 

[DeluxAuto]

this is what

libtards do when they can answer simple questions, the loving and inclusive side as they claim, turn to vicious name calling and yelling, it's a played out play book play, and they always look bad, but they keep it up, as we laugh at them, because they are clowns, goofy people.

Just because your parents didn't take advantage of the Department of Education in your youth doesn't mean we should raise generations of ignorant dumbfucks like you.