Saturday Morning Covfefe: 5 Things with Olivia

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1. “Find the Facts That Fit the Narrative”: Life at the Department of Justice

Sixty Justice Department lawyers just broke the silence to describe what it’s really like inside Trump’s second-term DOJ, and it’s worse than the headlines. On Day One, Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6 rioters and installed his former defense lawyers atop the department. From there, the guardrails came off: career prosecutors were ordered to drop corruption and civil-rights cases for political reasons, told to “find facts that fit the narrative,” and threatened or fired if they wouldn’t comply.

The Public Integrity Section was gutted. Foreign-bribery and Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) cases, the investigations that expose hidden foreign influence in U.S. politics, were sidelined. A massive national-security red flag in an administration already vulnerable to foreign pressure. Voting-rights lawsuits withdrawn. Wrongful deportations and pardon recommendations were twisted to reward allies and punish enemies.

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2. The Department of Deportation

Yes, that should be its new name, because they’re certainly no longer focused on your safety.

The New York Times uncovered what I and other national security experts have been saying for months: DHS isn’t functioning as a homeland security agency anymore, it’s a mass-deportation apparatus, and the tradeoffs are staggering. Thousands of federal agents who typically hunt child predators, human traffickers, arms smugglers, money launderers, and even Iranian oil networks that fund terrorism have been yanked off those missions and forced into low-level immigration sweeps.

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