President Donald Trump’s efforts to criminally prosecute his political adversaries have finally “collapsed,” at least according to journalist Jason Easley, who argued the latest court rebuke to the Trump administration to be the final nail in the coffin for the president’s “revenge campaign.”
“The Trump revenge campaign has fallen apart,” Easley wrote in an analysis published Friday on PoliticusUSA, a liberal news website.
“His demand to [Attorney General] Pam Bondi that she indict people on his enemies list has so far resulted in zero convictions. Before Trump returned to office, many Americans were concerned that he would be able to abuse his power to crush criticism with political prosecutions successfully… Trump hasn’t been able to break the United States. Instead, it seems the U.S. is breaking Trump.”
Trump’s Justice Department has targeted a number of the president’s political adversaries, including FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, all of whom Trump has publicly smeared.
Courts have repeatedly rebuked the Trump administration, however, throwing out both Comey’s and James’ indictments, sparking outrage among the president’s most loyal supporters. And this week, the courts rebuked Trump yet again after throwing out a second attempt by the DOJ to indict James, who previously brought civil charges against Trump for allegedly inflating the values of his company’s assets.
“Donald Trump is going to keep trying to get his revenge on people whom he has deemed his enemies, but just like all of Trump’s other efforts to establish an undemocratic regime, it has failed,” Easley wrote.
“The United States still has more battles to wage to protect itself from its own president, but what Trump thought he could waltz into office and do has flopped, and America is better off because of it.”