L'arrogante corruption de Donald Trump

Si on peut reprocher à Donald Trump de se comporter en meneur autoritaire, on ne peut lui reprocher de cacher ses intentions. Ses attaques répétées contre Jeff Sessions et le Département de la justice ne sont guère subtiles et pourraient même être considérées comme des entraves. Si ce président n'est pas le premier à vouloir que la justice ferme les yeux sur des écarts pour lui permettre de faire avancer son agenda politique, les comparaisons avec ses prédécesseurs ne sont pas flatteuses.

 "Trump’s tweet is so blunt one is almost tempted to look for deeper meaning. He’s saying the U.S. Department of Justice should be most concerned not with enforcement of laws but with aiding the Republican Party. Plenty of politicians are corrupt, but few announce it proudly from their Twitter accounts.

There’s nothing particularly new about politics interfering with the Justice Department. Since the attorney general is a political appointee, tension between political aims and the impartiality expected of the justice system is a constant battle. Though these days George W. Bush aides comment censoriously about Trump, the Bush administration orchestrated a mass firing of U.S. attorneys for political reasons. Richard Nixon saw the Justice Department as responsible for protecting him, too.

This current situation is a little different for two reasons. First, Trump is more publicly estranged from Attorney General Jeff Sessions than any president has been from any cabinet member since the Andrew Johnson administration. Second, Trump is openly admitting he wants crimes covered up for political reasons, where his predecessors kept the truth behind closed doors."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-sessions-justice-department-hunter-collins/569239/