{"id":20821,"date":"2025-12-18T20:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20821"},"modified":"2025-12-18T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:35:41","slug":"trump-seems-to-wave-the-white-flag-on-his-us-attorneys-gambit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20821","title":{"rendered":"Trump seems to wave the white flag on his US attorneys gambit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The administration\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/19\/trump-us-attorneys-senate-confirmation-bypass-00515124?cid=apn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tactics with U.S. attorneys<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 bypassing the Senate or sidestepping federal judges to keep unvetted prosecutors in place \u2014 are a crucial component of Trump\u2019s effort to deploy the Justice Department against his perceived enemies. He has relied on loyalist U.S. attorneys to pursue what critics call baldly political investigations and prosecutions, including those against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/13\/donald-trump-us-attorneys-senate-confirmation-00689692\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/13\/donald-trump-us-attorneys-senate-confirmation-00689692<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The administration\u2019s tactics with U.S. attorneys \u2014 bypassing the Senate or sidestepping federal judges to keep unvetted prosecutors in place \u2014 are a crucial component of Trump\u2019s effort to deploy the Justice Department against his perceived enemies. He has relied on loyalist U.S. attorneys to pursue what critics call baldly political investigations and prosecutions, including those against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/13\/donald-trump-us-attorneys-senate-confirmation-00689692<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,431,660,221,201,170],"class_list":["post-20821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-rule-of-law","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20822,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821\/revisions\/20822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}