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President Trump’s recent comments to Attorney General Bondi are PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE and follow in the tradition of our greatest Presidents/Founders, such as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.

In fact, they all directed specific prosecutions. Like them, President Trump is the nation’s Chief Prosecutor under our Constitution.

As Professor Sai Prakash, a former Justice Clarence Thomas clerk, has written in a compelling law review article, titled The Chief Prosecutor, “presidential control of official prosecutions was not something controversial (or worse yet, contrary to law) … The presidents understood that they were constitutionally empowered to direct official prosecutions. Presidents ordered prosecutions commenced and halted, sometimes doing both in the same case!”

President George Washington ordered prosecutions of those involved in the Whiskey rebellion in 1792 and 1793. But after concluding that two men had not been involved in the Rebellion, Washington directly ordered the Pennsylvania federal district attorney to not pursue charges.

President John Adams personally and vigorously directed his Attorney General and district attorneys to prosecute specific individuals for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts, and in certain circumstances, drop some of those prosecutions.

President Jefferson, who had publicly criticized this law and the Adams’ Administration enforcement of it, reversed course and ordered these prosecutions dropped.

As Jefferson explained in a private letter: “The President is to have the laws executed. He may order an offense then to be prosecuted. If he sees a prosecution put into a train which is not lawful, he may order it to be discontinued and put into a legal train.”

For example, President Thomas Jefferson ordered the arrest of Aaron Burr for treason. Jefferson publicly stated Burr was guilty before Burr was indicted by a grand jury. And Jefferson personally directed the Burr prosecution.

More recently, President Theodore Roosevelt personally ordered his DOJ to prosecute the Northern Securities Company for antitrust violations; President Reagan directed his DOJ to close a criminal antitrust investigation; President Bush ordered his DOJ to conduct a criminal investigation into the Rodney King case; and President Obama directed his DOJ in the prosecution of police officers. These are just a few examples of the norm of Presidential control over prosecution.

Post-Watergate laws that sought to break the centuries old understanding that the President controls prosecutions by creating prosecutors independent of the President are now widely understood to be completely unconstitutional.

No, the DOJ is not, nor has ever been, an independent agency not subject to the control of the President. It is part of the Executive Branch and the AG and all U.S. Attorneys are under the direct control of President Trump.

(In fact, most, if not all, post-Watergate laws and so-called “norms” have been meant to cripple the Presidency. Thank God President Trump is fighting back on all fronts against this assault on the Executive).

Democrats and their media allies gaslight us all by pretending that the DOJ is independent. Joe Biden has always been corrupt and ran his DOJ to attack his opponents, most especially Donald Trump (recall the baseless and outrageous raid on President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago), or protecting his allies and family, like Biden’s utterly corrupt and degenerate son, Hunter Biden.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/30/paoletta-donald-trump-operational-control-doj/