The Lindsey Halligan Nomination & the New James Comey Indictment Confirm That the DOJ & FBI Functionally No Longer Exist

As Law Enforcement Agencies

Donald Trump came into the Oval Office for his second, non-consecutive term livid.

He was livid, in particular, that his political career had been marked by allegations of wrongdoing that nearly derailed his 2016 presidential campaign, did derail his 2020 presidential campaign, and nearly derailed his 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump was in fact so livid that upon entering the White House again in early 2025 he soon began speaking of a 2028 presidential campaign for an illegal third term that he claimed he was somehow “owed” by his political enemies.

It should go without saying that all the evidence we have confirms Trump to be guilty of everything he’s ever been accused of—from violent crimes to white-collar crimes, betrayals of his country to grave acts of stochastic terrorism—and that the supposedly exculpatory evidence Trump has put forward in each such case amounts merely to his own blanket denial. Proof states this in a matter-of-fact way: Donald Trump’s actual, literal, longstanding modus operandi in response to any allegation of wrongdoing, even criminal wrongdoing, is not to present any hard evidence countering those allegations (remember that he was convicted of 34 felonies in New York without even putting on a substantive defense) but to (1) follow his late disgraced lawyer Roy Cohn’s infamously effective but also decidedly extralegal advice (“deny, deny, deny”); (2) seek to appeal the case many times as possible, until either (a) his opponents run out of money, (b) he’s saved by a partisan conservative judge, or (c) his case becomes non-justiciable; and (3) attack his accusers until they either (a) kill themselves, (b) lose all credibility in the court of public opinion (not because they actually lack credibility, but because he has a far larger megaphone and more earned media than any of them), or (c) he finds a way to imprison them, destroy them professionally, or in some other way ruin their lives for the temerity of thinking he’d ever take responsibility for anything he’s done.

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