President has \u2018succeeded in completely politicizing\u2019 justice department, experts say, using it to punish his enemies<\/p>\n
Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Department of Justice (DoJ) has increasingly become his administration\u2019s \u201cpolitical wing\u201d with criminal investigations of economic and political foes and an FBI raid of a Georgia<\/a> election office seeking evidence for Trump\u2019s debunked claim that his 2020 election<\/a> loss was rigged, say ex-prosecutors.<\/p>\n The shifts at the DoJ have been especially marked since the start of 2026 and the growing politicization of the department \u2013 headed by Trump\u2019s loyalist attorney general, Pam Bondi \u2013 was symbolized on 19 February , when a large banner with Trump\u2019s picture was unfurled over the door of the DoJ headquarters.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President has \u2018succeeded in completely politicizing\u2019 justice department, experts say, using it to punish his enemies Donald Trump\u2019s Department of Justice (DoJ) has increasingly become his administration\u2019s \u201cpolitical wing\u201d with criminal investigations of economic and political foes and an FBI raid of a Georgia election office seeking evidence for Trump\u2019s debunked claim that his 2020 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}