Lemon Squash and the Power of Repress 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice dissects the Trump maladministration’s vendetta against news report Don Lemon. It’s a blistering send of duplicity and dissimulation on the part of Pam Bondi’s Department of you-can-no-longer-call-it Jusstice.
A snippet:
This should have marked the end of a troubling campaign to punish a journalist for journalisming, but what this DOJ lacks in professionalism and legal acumen they more than make up for in creativity. Unable to secure a warrant, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she directed federal agents to arrest the journalists.
Afterthought:
On his podcast, Bob Cesca has often advanced the theory that the point of such legal actions isn’t necessarily to win in court, but rather to cause the targets financial and spiritual pain. Trump, after all, has a long history of using protracted court actions to wear down those he perceives as opponents.
Methinks Cesca makes sense.
