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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump called on Friday to face criminal charges for more political opponents when he expressed the offense of former FBI director James Kami and called him an “dirty police officer”.
Republican comments launched an extraordinary, unprecedented campaign of changing people who oppose it that denies decades of principles in American politics.
On Thursday, when asked about the crime, Trump told reporters in the White House, “In fact, I hope that there are more.”
“This is not a revenge. It is also about the fact that you cannot leave it forward.”
The president has historically struggled to show a clear separation between the White House and the Justice Department. Trump has broken the view, making it clear that he plans to affect the Kami issue.
Kami was accused of obstructing false statements and justice in connection with the investigation, in which he said that Trump won the 2016 elections with Russia.
“He is a dirty policeman, he has always been a dirty policeman,” Trump told reporters about Kami.
When asked who would be next for legalism, Trump said: “This is not a list, but I think there will be more.”
Following the allegations against the former FBI chief, Trump publicly urged Attorney General Palm Bondi to take action against others when he sees as enemies.
They included Lteicia James, who brought a civil fraud case against Trump as a New York state prosecutor, and the current California Senator Adam Shef, who led the prosecution in the first president of the president in 2019.
The New York Times reported on Friday that the Trump Department is also seeking information about Georgia’s district attorney Fanny Willis, who has brought an election intervention against Trump.
Willis was later removed from the matter because because of his intimate relationship, he had kept a special prosecutor with the man and his trial is unlikely to be tried.
‘Not frightened’
On Friday, the current FBI chief Kashi Patel denied the Democrats’ allegations that the allegations had been made politics, and called them “hypocrisy on steroids”.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche denied that Trump’s comments had put pressure on the Bondi or the Justice Department. He told Fox News, “I know I certainly didn’t take it as a pressure, and I am very skeptical that he either did it.”
But Trump has used his position to put pressure on several individuals and institutions who used to oppose them in the past, as well as media outlets who have tried to maintain their independence.
The accusations against Kami are still the most dramatic example of Trump’s revenge campaign.
According to the Federal Prosecutor Lindsay Helgon, if the sentence is sentenced, Kami has to face five years in prison, which Trump has appointed a few days ago to pursue the case. Former President’s personal lawyer, he has no experience as a prosecutor.
In a video posted on Instagram, Kami said, “I’m not afraid” and denied any wrongdoing.
Kami has been a prominent critic during Trump’s second term, which he says Republicans have been trying to surrender to the justice system for their political use.
But Trump’s quarrel with Kami returned in the early days of his first term when Kami was the director of the FBI.
Trump fired Kami in 2017 while investigating whether any member of the Trump campaign had asked Moscow to overcome the 2016 presidential votes – a problem that cut the Republican during his first term.
Trump has vowed to avenge all the people who have investigated him in the matter, which he called “Russia’s fraud”.
The case against Kami has been declared a deep error from the beginning.
The five -year rules about his alleged lying to the Congress are expiring Tuesday, forcing the prosecution to be charged.
The chief prosecutor of the Eastern District Virginia refused to suppress the allegations but then quit his job under Trump’s pressure – and was replaced by inexperienced Heligan.