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Twenty former Republican US attorneys accused President Donald Trump of threatening the rule of law Tuesday when they declared their support for Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden.
Former high-ranking federal prosecutors, who collectively served under all Republican presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to George W Bush, said in a publicly released letter that Trump treated the Justice Department as his personal law firm by pressuring government attorneys to protect your allies and attack yours. political enemies.
The group is the latest of several Republican-led organizations opposing the reelection of Republican Trump.
Former US prosecutors say Trump has politicized the Justice Department like no other president.
“We believe that the leadership of President Trump is a threat to the rule of law in our country,” the group wrote.
The lawyers said they were dismayed by Trump’s 2017 firing of FBI Director James Comey, which they believe was done to thwart an investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election; his removal of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whom Trump publicly rebuked for failing to close the Russia investigation, and Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of his adviser Roger Stone, saving him from jail after he was convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russia. interference.
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