Pam Bondi isn’t playing games. She said she would clean house at the Department of Justice, and that’s exactly what she’s doing.
This week, Trump’s Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a fiery letter to New York’s Acting U.S. Attorney, Danielle Sassoon, accepting her resignation after she refused to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
But it wasn’t just Sassoon. The letter also put two other prosecutors on administrative leave and made it clear that the Justice Department would be taking over the case – and dismissing it.
Sassoon and her team had been pushing a case against Adams that, according to the Justice Department, reeked of political motivation. The DOJ had ordered her to dismiss the case.
She refused.
That’s when Bove stepped in and did what needed to be done.
“You lost sight of the oath that you took when you started at the Department of Justice,” Bove wrote to Sassoon, “by suggesting that you retain discretion to interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the policies of a democratically elected President and a Senate-confirmed Attorney General.”
Translation?
The DOJ sets the policies, not rogue prosecutors. And Bondi’s team wasn’t about to let some holdover from the old regime keep playing politics.
This is exactly what President Trump and Pam Bondi promised when they took over the DOJ: no more weaponization of the justice system.
Trump’s Executive Order 14147 made it clear: The DOJ is going to stop politically motivated prosecutions.
And Attorney General Bondi reinforced that in her February 5th memo, saying any prosecutor who refuses to follow orders “will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.”
In other words, if you’re a federal prosecutor and you think you can just ignore the new administration’s policies, think again.
The case against Mayor Adams was shady from the start.
The charges ramped up after Adams criticized Biden’s failed immigration policies. The former U.S. Attorney leading the case had deep ties to the previous administration and seemed to be positioning himself for a future political career.
Even after Trump won the election, this prosecutor launched a website and started bragging about the high-profile cases he had taken on – including Adams’ case.
Bove made it clear – this wasn’t just about the law. It was about political targeting.
“The Justice Department will not ignore the fact that the timing of charges authorized by a former U.S. Attorney with apparent political aspirations interferes with Mayor Adams’ ability to run a campaign in the 2025 election,” Bove wrote.
In other words, this case wasn’t about justice. It was about interfering with an election.
And that’s exactly the kind of thing Trump and Bondi said they would stop.
Of course, the usual suspects are crying foul. The left-wing media is already calling this “political interference” in the justice system.
But let’s be real. Where were these same people when Biden’s DOJ was going after Trump, his allies, and anyone who dared challenge the establishment?
When Trump supporters were thrown in jail for years over January 6th while left-wing rioters walked free?
The critics claim Bondi’s DOJ is just doing Trump’s bidding. But what they really mean is they’re mad they can’t use the justice system as a weapon anymore.
Pam Bondi and Trump’s DOJ are making it clear: rogue prosecutors don’t get to make up their own rules. The justice system isn’t going to be used to settle political scores anymore.
And if that means cleaning house, so be it.
Sassoon is out. The case against Adams is over. And the message has been sent – follow the rules or find another job.
That’s what draining the swamp looks like.
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