Biden gets support of former U.S. attorneys, twenty four innumber. The attorneys are Republicans and their rationale for siding with Bidenis that they find Trump, “a threat to the rule of law in our country.”
In addition, they urged that he be replaced in November withBiden.
The attorneys said in an open letter, “The President hasclearly conveyed that he expects his Justice Department appointees andprosecutors to serve his personal and political interests.”
Trump has been accused Trump of taking “action against thosewho have stood up for the interests of justice.”
The letter, signed by prosecutors appointed by every GOPpresident from Eisenhower to Trump, is the latest instance of Republicansbacking Biden. In August, dozens of GOP national security experts signed afull-page newspaper ad endorsing Biden over Trump.
Trump has joked about losing the elections in his speeches.
The letter continues, “He has politicized the JusticeDepartment, dictating its priorities along political lines and breaking downthe barrier that prior administrations had maintained between political andprosecutorial decision-making.”
Ken Wainstein, a former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., organizedthe effort. He later served during the George W. Bush administration asassistant attorney general for national security.
Trump’s campaign spokesman dismissed the letter from theformer prosecutors as arrogant and offensive, noting that it is Trump who hasthe support of police officers and their unions.
In criticizing the Trump Justice Department publicly, thesigners effectively joined half a dozen or so career prosecutors who publiclyprotested what they have decried as politicized decision-making, includingreducing a recommended prison sentence for Trump campaign adviser Roger Stoneand seeking to dismiss the case against Trump’s first national securityadviser, Michael Flynn.
The letter continues that Trump, on the other hand, has underminedthe Department’s ability to unify and lead our nation’s law enforcement bypicking political fights with state and local officials in a naked effort todemonize and blame them for the disturbances in our cities over the pastseveral months.”
A former two-time U.S. attorney in Minnesota, ThomasHeffelfinger, a Republican fixture in the state, shared a series of actions ledhim to sign the letter, including the president’s treatment of women, hispersonal and political demands of the Justice Department, and his handling ofthe aftermath of George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody.
“He badmouthed the mayor, the governor, leaders who weretrying to get things under control,” Heffelfinger said. “Trump was interfering,demoralizing local officials and dividing the country.”