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The ex-president's voracious desire for retribution has rapidly morphed into a structured apparatus. Over the year since his election, the leader's fury and whims have taken on the form of government actions in a manner reminiscent to historical dictatorial systems. Justice department personnel who do not cooperate are immediately dismissed and replaced by supporters. Political figures who question him face legal action, trial and penalties. Critics have been labeled under executive directives as “unpatriotic”, “anti-Christian” and “anti-capitalist”, and menaced with prosecution as “extremists”.

The Justice System Transformed

All case involving prosecution of Trump's enemies and immunity for his allies demonstrates its own particular features. Yet, regardless of their individual form, they represent examples of what has emerged as a calculated approach. These events are far from random. His removal of Department of Justice attorneys and law enforcement agents, coupled with his placement of supporters in high-level roles, commenced rapidly, quickly developed a consistency, and has now been formed into a system. Federal prosecutors and the law enforcement agency have been remade into political organizations under Trump's clear direction to carry out his directives. Wrongdoing has been rendered routine. It constitutes the retribution system.

Management is preoccupied with targeting the leader's alleged enemies than they are with safeguarding our national security.

Within the System

The foundation of this mechanism has been exposed in the court filing of three former top FBI executives lodged in September in the judicial system in the capital against top official an administration figure and top lawyer another official for wrongful dismissal in “a effort of payback against the officials for what the accused deemed to be a failure to show sufficient devotion”. According to the filing that a former acting director, the ex- temporary head, recounts a conversation in which Patel “openly acknowledged the unlawfulness of his behavior”.

The official had tried to protect agency personnel from being dismissed, the lawsuit states. Patel told him that “administration officials” – interpreted by Driscoll to be the executive branch and DoJ – had ordered him to remove everyone who they identified as having worked on a law enforcement case against the president. The filing adds: “He explained that he had to terminate the individuals his bosses told him to fire, because his ability to keep his own position relied on the ouster of the personnel who worked on investigations involving the President. Patel commented that there was nothing he or Driscoll could do to prevent these or any other terminations, because ‘the bureau tried to incarcerate the chief in prison and he remembers.’” After Driscoll informed the director he was disregarding the bureau's own regulations, Patel allegedly said “he understood that and he knew the nature of the summary firings were probably unlawful”.

Widespread Impact

After his claimed acknowledgment to him, the DoJ and the law enforcement agency have been dismantled and reorganized for his system of punishment. Six of the agency's top officials were terminated or pushed out in the first days of the administration. About 4,500 professional attorneys at the justice department have accepted a “voluntary departure plan”. At least multiple government attorneys, including those in the Manhattan division, resigned in objection over what they considered as political interference in abandoning the corruption case against the city leader, the mayor, in exchange for his cooperation with the administration's federal agency arrests of foreign nationals. The public integrity section of the department, which handles misconduct investigations, has been diminished to minimal staff. The equality section has been devastated: 70% of its employees has left. 33% of top officials at the department have quit. The unit implementing environmental law has lost half its supervisors.

Incentives and Penalties

In the mayor's situation, the interim prosecutor for the federal division, the official, stepped down in objection against what she characterized as the “exchange”. A key figure, his “immigration leader,” appeared as the enforcer with Adams on a media outlet to declare: “Should he fail to deliver, I'll be back in NYC.”. Meanwhile, Emil Bove, previously the justice department figure and a former Trump attorney, who arranged the agreement, was granted an appellate federal judgeship, a possible pathway to the judicial branch.

His protection for wrongdoings committed while in government, awarded by the unprecedented ruling of the Republican majority on the highest court, thus preventing his criminal case over the political violence and maintaining his political viability for the presidential race, is the foundation stone on which he stands to protect his stalwarts. Under these circumstances, he has been freed to permit corruption. The impact of the supreme court decision saturates his administration and the political party completely. The court matter has escalated. As the former president's administration lawyer he said about the Watergate