By Kelby Vera
Copyright huffingtonpost
President Donald Trump is turning up the heat as he continues to push Attorney General Pam Bondi to go after his political enemies.
In a Saturday night Truth Social post addressed to “Pam,” the president complained that the Department of Justice was “all talk, no action” and that failing to pursue criminal charges against his adversaries was “killing our reputation and credibility.”
“They’re all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done,” he wrote, specifically pointing to former FBI Director James Comey, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff and New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
The president appeared to confirm reports he forced Erik Siebert, the former US attorney from the Eastern District of Virginia, out of his position after determining there wasn’t enough evidence to pursue mortgage fraud charges against James or build a case against Comey.
“There is a GREAT CASE, and many lawyers, and legal pundits, say so,” Trump wrote before going on to endorse his former personal attorney, Lindsey Halligan, as Siebert’s replacement.
Trump doubled down on his demands to Bondi while crossing paths with reporters later that evening.
Asked if he was criticising his attorney general in his social media post, Trump said, “No, I just want people to act. They have to act and we want to act fast.”
As Trump talked, he seemed to reveal how any cases against his “ruthless and vicious” enemies would be more about getting retribution than any actual evidence of crimes.
“We have to act fast one way or the other, one way or the other. They’re guilty, They’re not guilty,” he said, adding, “If they’re not guilty, that’s fine. If they are guilty or if they should be charged, they should be charged. And we have to do it now.”
The president has repeatedly, without proof, accused Comey, Schiff and James of criminal wrongdoing.
Trump canned Comey in 2017 amid the DOJ’s investigation into his presidential campaigns ties to Russia.
Schiff led Trump’s first impeachment trial while James oversaw a sprawling civil fraud investigation into the president’s business organization. That case resulted in a half-a-billion-dollar judgment against Trump and his sons, but the massive monetary penalty was pared down by an appeals court earlier this year.
