A Thausand Ideas: President Trump complained about politicizing DOJ and the FBI, but he is doing it even more

The Eric Adams affair is troubling. President Trump and Emil Bove are clearly politicizing government agencies after having complained that they were politicized in the prior administration. 7 Federal employees and 4 NYC employees have quit in protest to cancelling the charges against Eric Adams. It is an extremely strong statement that so many people would quit and the lead Federal person, Danielle Sassoon is a conservative. This is very problematic!

The Trump administration also seems to be vindictively pursuing US citizens who it considered to be enemies, with no evidence that those people have done anything wrong.

On the other hand, as is often the case, the left-wing media and Democrats are mischaracterizing two letters that were sent by U.S. Attorney Edward Martin. As explained below, I'm concerned about Martin. However, I insist upon honesty about what happened which I explain below:

Senator Schumer spoke out against Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh at a March 4, 2020 abortion rights, by saying: " I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price." I remember being upset that he would say that. However, the next day, Schumer said "I should not have used the words I used yesterday….My point was that there would be political consequences…I am from Brooklyn. We speak in strong language. I shouldn't have used the words I did, but in no way was I making a threat."

His apology would have been better if he hadn’t included the “I am from Brooklyn. We speak in strong language.” wording and “political consequences” doesn’t seem consistent with directly addressing Supreme Court judges and saying “you will pay the price”. Nonetheless, he apologized and that should be the end of it.

Rep. Robert Garcia said: ““What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight.” He has not apologized for what is clearly inappropriate wording. Instead, he said “no reasonable person would view my comments as a threat, and that elected members of Congress have a right to denounce the Trump administration…. I will not be silenced.” I think reasonable people would wonder about the meaning of his statement and we, of course, fear that unreasonable people, stimulated by the lies and misleading comments coming from both sides, will become violent.

Ironically, the liberal press refers to the letters from Martin as intimidation but fails to mention that the statements by Schumer and Garcia were intimidation.

Below you can find 9 sources I read about this situation. Thousands of people have criticized Musk, but Martin sent his letter only to those who used improper inflammatory language. If people want to criticize Martin for that, that’s fine, but it is improper to misrepresent it as an effort to silence critics of Musk.

I have serious concerns about U. S. Attorney Edward Martin.

He has advocated for the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol

#1 becomes more significant in that he is accused of not pursuing threats made against federal prosecutors, FBI agents and judges by January 6 defendants to whom Trump granted clemency.
Denise Cheung quit, after being pressured by Bove and Martin to issue grand jury subpoenas in investigating EPA-related contracts. Given her objections, I feel strongly that the administration should have backed down. It seems, from her explanation, that they did back down, instead demanding that she freeze funding pending the investigation. Apparently, she cooperated with the FBI in sending a letter to the bank, but Martin felt it wasn’t explicit enough relative to criminal investigation. It seems to me that an investigation is appropriate and freezing the assets pending investigation is appropriate and that Ms. Cheung did not object to those steps. Matin and Bove seem out-of-line. What may have happened here is that the Biden administration did not find grantees for the money, so rather than leaving it ungranted, in which case the Trump administration might be able to choose not to spend it, they granted it to Citibank to hold pending grants.