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Political Analyst
We are seeing some major people in the Trump administration saying, I quit. Donald, you and your corrupt Department of Justice cannot order us to engage in illegal or unethical acts. Perhaps you will find other fools who will engage in such behavior, but not us. This is principally coming from, from the Department of Justice Main justice in Washington, D.C. which is now run by the corrupt Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove. They're basically serving as Donald Trump's personal law firm, out for nothing but retribution and unethical quid pro quo deals. But other top prosecutors who have worked in the DOJ for a long time have had enough and they're very publicly quitting. And also in the Southern District of New York, after their top federal prosecutor, the acting United States Attorney, Danielle Sasson, was asked to dismiss the charges against Mayor Eric Adams despite a ton of evidence of crimes committed, bribes taken, some of the worst behavior. Because Donald Trump wanted Eric Adams to turn over money to Donald Trump's administration and to parrot the MAGA talking points. Danielle Sasson, the top federal prosecutor, said, this is an unethical quid pro quo crimes were committed. I'm not going to be the one to dismiss it because that makes me complicit. So she resigned, then others in her office resigned. And then get this. Then Eric Adams, the corrupt criminal mayor from New York, whose charges, I guess are going to be dismissed, who knows? Shows up with Tom Homan on Fox News, the border czar, and they start to brag about the quid pro quo on Fox. And Tom Holman's like, well, you're gonna do what I tell you to do. Or I guess we can go back and have that discussion about your case again. And Mayor Eric Adams is just like, sitting there. The whole scene is so utterly pathetic. I gotta show you, though, these resignation letters, this is some powerful stuff. So other people at the SDNY who worked for that prosecutor, they're resigning as well, because they're saying, we're not, we're going to be lawyers for a long time. And our bar Licenses and the oath we took actually matters to us. Yes, we're conservative lawyers, but that doesn't mean we're criminal lawyers who are going to commit crimes for Donald Trump. I got to give these lawyers credit. Take a look at Hagan Scott's letter, for example. This just came out. This is an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York. So a very accomplished lawyer, someone who would be working in the chain of command with that Danielle Sassoon, who was serving as the acting United States Attorney, the top federal prosecutor in that office. Let me just read this line from this letter and I'll share more with you as well, Scott. And writes the following. If no lawyer within earshot of President Trump is willing to give him that advice, that what you're asking is unlawful and illegal, 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. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. I want to read more of that letter. I want to show you Danielle Sasson's letter. I want to tell you more about what's been going down at the Department of Justice as well. But let me just show you this image right here. So you go, what they did that earlier this morning on fox. You had this brazen criminality by the doj, right, where Mayor Eric Adams gets the federal corruption charge dropped, not because there isn't overwhelming evidence, because he agrees to help the Trump administration. And just watch what Homan says here. Homan's like, it's a thinly veiled Homan warning to Adams that if Adams doesn't come through for us, I'll be in his office up his butt saying, where the hell is that agreement we came to on your behalf? I mean, in any other time in American history, this would be grounds for impeachment of Donald Trump. Because this is, this, of all these people, this is crime. These are crimes right here. And they're just admitting to it on fox. Watch this.
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News Anchor
You're up early anyway.
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Donald Trump
If he doesn't come through, I'll be back in New York City and we won't be sitting on a couch. I'll be in his office up, up his butt saying, where the hell is the agreement we came to? So, and I want ICE to do. We're going to deliver for the safety of the people of this city.
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Political Analyst
May I show you more exhibits of the crimes? And then I'll show you Some more resignations. So Donald Trump's asked in the Oval Office when he's with India's Prime Minister Modi yesterday, what do you know about these resignations? What's going on? And first, Donald Trump realizes, wait a minute. What should I say here? I'm just going to go with, I know nothing about it. Here, play this clip. If I could ask you about a development in your Hometown today. The U.S. attorney has resigned over the DOJ's request to drop the case into Eric Adams. Did you personally request the Justice Department.
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News Anchor
To drop that case?
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Donald Trump
No, I didn't. I know nothing about it. I did not.
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Political Analyst
And then Donald Trump realizes, wait a minute, I have absolute immunity now. There's no repercussions anymore because of the corrupt United States Supreme Court and the spineless Republicans in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Okay, I'm going to actually say, you know what? We fired the United States. She didn't resign. I fired her. How many times have we heard that with Donald Trump before? She didn't resign. I said, you're fired. So immature and such criminality. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
That war is a horrible war. It's a vicious, bloody war. We want to end it. To your other question, that U.S. attorney was actually fired. I don't know. He or she resigned, but that U.S. attorney was fired.
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Political Analyst
Now, just so you know, who's leading the Justice Department? So Pam Bondi is the individual leading the Justice Department. So as I said, the Justice Department now is Trump's law firm. Emil Bove was Trump's lawyer in his criminal case. He's the person who's carrying out these orders with or asking that these orders be carried out with Pam Bondi. So this was Pam Bondi earlier this week where she said that she was bringing charges against the governor of New York and the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, charges as though they were like, criminal charges. But then you looked at it, it was some, like, just frivolous civil lawsuit that wasn't even filed on a docket when this announcement was made. Here, watch this video of her.
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Pam Bondi
We're here today because we have filed charges against the state of New York. We have filed charges against Kathy Hochul. We have filed charges against Letitia James and Mark Schroeder, who is with dmv. This is a new doj, and we are taking steps to protect Americans, American citizens and angel moms, like the mom standing right behind me, who you're going to hear from in a moment. New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today. As you know, we sued Illinois and New York didn't listen. So now you're next.
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Political Analyst
And so Pam Bondi was Donald Trump's impeachment lawyer and when I saw her make the argument for Trump during impeachment, I was like it doesn't seem like a great law. Like, like, you know, lawyers may have different skills, but being a advocate, an oral advocate, just watch. Watch this. This was not exactly. I would not give this high marks in my law school class if this was some of the presentations that were made here. Play this clip.
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Pam Bondi
He remained on the board until April of 2019. We also know that.
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Political Analyst
All right, now let's get back into these letters, shall we? Because this is some compelling stuff. This is what Hagen Scott and wrote. Dear Mr. Bovet, Emil Bove, Trump's corrupt Deputy Attorney General at the DOJ. I've received correspondence indicated indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. attorney, Daniel Sassoon never asked me to file such a motion and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so for the reason stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion, that Damian Williams role in the case somehow tainted the valid indictments supported by ample evidence and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys, is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worst. 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. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last ditch effort to head off serious mistakes. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in light of their generally negative views of the new administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a chief executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal with leverage as good, if distasteful, of a deal. But 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. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to be a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Hagan Scott, right there. That's how it's done, folks. Let me show you. Danielle Sassoon Hagen's boss or prior boss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. And it should be noted with her background that she clerked for Justice Scalia and she clerked for justice or Judge Wilkinson. Conservative Federalist judges, you don't get more conservative and check the boxes than a Justice Scalia, Wilkinson law clerk. And that's why she was given this position. But she was not going to violate the law. Here's what she said in her letter, just so you could see it for yourself. So one of the things that she says in her letter is she goes, let me just pull it up right here. She's like, look, I've been, you know, I, I've been in this position For a while. She goes. On February 10, 2025, I received a memorandum from the acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove directed me to dismiss the indictment against Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions which would require leave of court. I do not repeat here the evidence against Adams that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes. Mr. Bove rightly has never called into question that the case team conducted the investigation with integrity and that the charges against Adam are serious and supported by the facts and law. Mr. Bob's memo, however, which directs me to dismiss an indictment returned by a duly constituted grand jury for reasons having nothing to do with the strength of the case, raises serious concerns that render the contemplated dismissal inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good faith arguments before the court. I mean, as a lawyer, this is some powerful stuff right here. When I took my oath of office three weeks ago, I vowed to well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office which I was to enter in carrying out that responsibility. I am guided by a mother, among other things, the principles of federal prosecution set forth in the Justice Manual and your recent memorandum instructing attorneys for the Department of Justice to make only good faith arguments and not to use criminal enforcement authority of the United States to achieve political objectives or other improper aims. I am guided by the values defined by this career, you know. And so she goes on and then she says, I'm resigning. Powerful, powerful stuff. And then you had the lawyers at Main justice resign as well. The Justice Department plan to remove the prosecutors handling the mayor's case, the ones I just mentioned, and reassign it to the Public Integrity Section in Washington. However, as soon as the Public Integrity Section in Washington was informed that it would be taking over from SDNY John Keller, the acting head of the unit, and his boss, Kevin Driscoll, the senior most career official in the criminal division, resigned, resigned, resigned, resign. This is good stuff. This is powerful stuff. And as a lawyer, I respect what they what they did here. Standing on business, standing for their values, standing for the oath that they took. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together. Can't get enough Midas. Check out the Midas plus substack for ad. 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