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Prosecutors have long spoken only through court filings, to investigate crimes, not people. That’s changing as President Trump demands his administration target
enemies, with no evidence of criminality.
By Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer
May 21, 2025 | Updated 1:23 p.m. ET
President Trump has kept up a steady bombardment of suggestions, requests and demands to arrest, investigate or prosecute targets of his choosing — the former
F.B.I. director James B. Comey, various Democrats, officials who refuted his election lies, Beyoncé, the Boss.
But Mr. Trump’s directives have so far hit a stubborn snag. Few, if any, of those singled out have done anything to invite conventional prosecutorial scrutiny, much less committed prosecutable crimes to warrant an indictment under
federal law.
But a Trump loyalist, given new, vague and possibly vast power, has found a workaround.
In recent days, Ed Martin, the self-described “captain” of the Justice Department’s “weaponization” group, made a candid if unsurprising admission: He
plans to use his authority to expose and discredit those he believes to be guilty, even if he cannot find sufficient evidence to prosecute them — weaponizing an institution he has been hired to de-weaponize, in the view of critics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-ed-martin-weaponization.html
Martin was *not* hired to "de-weaponize" the the DOJ — he was hired to *weaponize* it on the Orange Fat Fuck's behalf. The expression "Every Republiscum/QAnon accusation is, in fact, a confession" has never rung more true. It *is* true.
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