Trumps Druck auf Bondi repräsentiert „Weg zu einer Diktatur“: Schumer

Democrats on Sunday framed President Trump’s public demand that Attorney General Pam Bondi not „delay“ in prosecutions of political enemies as a threat to American democracy.

**The big picture:** Trump’s Saturday post addressed to the nation’s top law enforcement official urged action against three of his foes in an escalation of his retribution campaign — and the already mounting MAGA world pressure on Bondi after the Epstein files fallout.

* Trump, who has declared himself the nation’s „chief law enforcement officer,“ has stacked the DOJ and other agencies with loyalists who are now leading probes into Democrats and other Trump critics.

**Driving the news:** Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) argued on CNN’s „State of the Union“ Sunday that Trump is turning the DOJ „into an instrument that goes after his enemies, whether they’re guilty or not“ and „that helps his friends.“

* Schumer warned, „This is the path to a dictatorship.“

**Zoom out:** Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) framed the current moment „one of the most dangerous“ the country has faced, saying on ABC’s „This Week,“ „We are quickly turning into a banana republic.“

* Alluding to late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension following an FCC warning over comments he made after Charlie Kirk’s killing, he said Trump was „employing the full power of the federal government, the FCC, the Department of Justice, in order to punish, lock up, take down, [take] off the air, all of his political enemies.“
* Murphy said „there are two things happening: One, you are going to be prosecuted for political speech in this country, but you are also going to be excused,“ pointing to the clemency Trump granted to Jan. 6 rioters and reporting that the DOJ closed a probe into border czar Tom Homan.

**Former Secretary of State** and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wrote on social media Sunday, „Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.“

* The White House did not immediately respond to Axios‘ request for comment.

**Context:** Trump’s post, which read like a private message to Bondi, named former FBI director James Comey, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and New York Attorney General Letitia James — who all have faced administration probes — demanding that „JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!“

* He wrote that he had reviewed „over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, ’same old story as last time, all talk, no action. Nothing is being done.'“

Dems should point out that Republicans could stop this at any time. Keep hammering that.

Path to a dictatorship? This motherfucker been sleeping for the last 8+ months?

Trump not being in a cell from his first term paved the way for a fascist dictatorship. Their base cheered it on as their freedoms are stripped and wallets fleeced.

You can’t put all, or even most, of the blame on Trump. He’s a fucking six-year-old. He’d melt down in a minute on his own. The blame needs to be put on all the enablers. They’re the threat. It’s alarming and shameful how fast they’ve rolled over and begun helping the Orange Turd absolutely trash our Constitution. This is, no exaggeration, an existential moment for the country.

fuck off you dinosaur this isn’t a path the GPS says we’ve reached our destination

10 years too late, but thanks for the revelation.

If only there was a warning like stolen and shared top secret documents, insurrection

Imagine Biden doing this.

Conservatives would be burning shit down.

„Path“? Oh well, if we’re just on the PATH to it and not actually in one, then I guess everything is fine, someone wake me up when it gets serious.

And… you’re doing exactly what about it?

Time to retire Chuck. The interview on Face the Nation was a disaster. Step aside and let young, hungry candidates take the reins.

I genuinely don’t understand why people keep pretending the DOJ is somehow this walled independent organization. It CAN be, but isn’t always so, effectively, isn’t. This particular AG is a former registered agent of Qatar and has made no secret of protecting the admin…why the pretence?

Question : Nobody is stopping him, why? He told you what he intended to do and yet you still voted for him. Say goodbye to democracy the same way you said goodbye to Felicia. 🤣

Uh oh. He better write a strongly worded letter to the Taco decrying his actions.

**July 1, 2024**

On this day democracy in American was set to be murdered by a far-right Supreme Court in a 6 to 3 ruling. In that ruling they gave the president immunity from prosecution.

**NEVER** before had the America showed such an opinion or had the American court system said that someone was ABOVE the law, that justice and accountability did not apply to every American, no matter who they were.

America was founded on the simple fact that “No one is above the law”. We broke from the kings rule to give America freedom from a ruler who laws did not apply to and to give every citizen the right to speak their opinion, even to the leader of the government without fear of retribution.

Now that right has been diminished by **“Presidential Immunity”.** This is the same level of immunity that other countries Supreme Courts have done through out history.

You only need to look at the 20th century to see the pattern. ***Italy, Spain, Cuba, Germany, Chili, China, Russia, Iran, Cambodia, Uganda, Iraq, North Korea, Dominion Republic*** all granted their leaders immunity and they All slipped into dictatorships.

None of these dictatorships were or are considered to have been beneficial to their citizens or to their country. **NONE**

Each one spun into, *arrests of political opposition, the outlawing of any non-sponsored state political parties, the militarization of the police, the removal of freedom of the press, the suppression of free speech, the sanctioning of comedic descent, the loss of privacy, the revoking of citizenship, the criminalization of “foreign” religions, the dismantling of education and the restructuring of voting to ensure a biased electoral process to eliminate fair elections.*

**Anyone hear the echoes of history besides me?**

Your name is now „No shit, Schumer“

A path, oh my, it’s already a giant highway for the dictator of America. Land of the free if you obey.

Dipshit Schumer talking like they haven’t been on that path awhile now. Fuck he needs to go.

Schumer needs to hurry up and resign.

Path to a FASCIST CLOWNOCRACY

Remember: Schumer flipped and funded the government, betraying the house democrats.

Schumer will vote for it anyway “to bridge the gap” or some centrist bs.

Maybe Schumer should quit being a giant fucking pussy.