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    Trump’s Captain Queeg-style obsession with the ‘stolen’ 2020 election

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    Likely legally unnecessary, retaliation will impose professional, emotional, and other costs and consequences on those accused.

    Marshall H. Tanick
    | Fort Myers News Press

    The pre-Thanksgiving report says that among the incoming Trump II administration’s barrage of plans to use the Justice Department for its own political ends is the creation of a unit within that agency to review the 2020 elections in order to dig up – or fabricate – data to demonstrate that the president-elect won that contest, making this year’s victory a triple victory.

    The issue seems moot and the resurrected noise should be muted.

    There have already been multiple regurgitations of the 2020 vote, many of which were carried out by paid MAGA acolytes, who validated the outcome and discredited the “Big Steal” claims.

    But the president-elect has an obsession like Captain Queeg from the classic film “Caine’s Mutiny,” only his is about illusory fraudulent ballots and illegal procedures, rather than strawberries.

    With the new administration hand-selecting staffers and entrusting them with their mission, there is a near certainty that they will reach a conclusion that will fuel this obsession.

    To achieve this inevitable outcome, the unit will require significant time, effort and taxpayer-funded expenditure, while distracting the Department of Justice from its core missions of fighting crime, preventing terrorism and suppression of illegal immigration, among other issues, all of which have been highlighted. by the president-elect during the campaign.

    Arriving at a predetermined outcome with no practical meaning would be a glorious waste of time, money and other valuable resources other than allowing the president and his supporters to ensure that he won the election. 2020, even if not. This will also allow MAGA to use this contrived conclusion as a future campaign mantra and as a tool to enact more voter suppression measures.

    But wait, there’s more.

    Pam Bondi, the new nominee for attorney general, has embraced another Trumpian obsession: prosecuting those who filed charges against him. Our former state Attorney General and MAGA acolyte has announced that these attorneys, investigators, affiliates and possibly others will face criminal charges. Although it is unclear on what basis these lawsuits would be filed, they would likely include allegations of violating federal criminal laws prohibiting election interference. The objectives, however, are not opaque; They include, at the top of the agenda, New York Attorney General Letitia James, federal special counsel Jack Smith and members of Congress leading the January 6 investigation, among a long list of other wrongdoers presumed.

    Like the Election Redux, going after prosecutors and investigators will be a long and costly project, not to mention a divisive one, diverting resources from more important activities.

    Unless President Biden takes the advice of a growing number of bystanders and follows up on his son Hunter’s pardon by adding more of them as targets of President-elect Trump, the prosecution will likely proceed and, even with criminal pardons, could continue as planned. civil proceedings. While likely legally futile, unless the cases are presided over by Trump-appointed jurists, they will require the kind of retaliation the new president has promised by imposing professional, emotional and other costs and sanctions on those accused . The results of potential litigation are secondary to the pain the cases inflict, while potentially deterring others from filing charges against MAGAites for infractions.

    Those who denounced the “militarization” of the Justice Department in the outgoing Biden administration are sharpening their own blades.

    The deployment of current or new personnel, with unwavering loyalty to the cause, to undertake these crusades contradicts the new administration’s imploration to drastically reduce the number of federal employees and the resulting payroll.

    The significant expenses that will be incurred in connection with the 2020 Redux elections and the proposed lawsuits are those that the Elon Musk/Vivek Ramaswamy “Department of Government Effectiveness” should do without in striving to achieve its $2 trillion cost reduction target.

    Marshall H. Tanick of Naples is a constitutional law attorney.

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