#political-weaponization

#political-weaponization

Former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are calling for their congressional testimony on ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to be held publicly, to prevent Republicans from politicising the issue. Both Clintons had been ordered to give closed-door depositions before the House of Representatives' oversight committee, which is investigating the deceased financier's connections to powerful figures and how information about his crimes was handled.

As a refresher, to doxx someone is, definitionally, "to publicly identify or publish private information about [them], especially as a form of punishment or revenge." The word arose from '90s hacker culture, to describe the digital unmasking of someone otherwise known only by a username by sharing their identity or personal information publicly. Although it remained in the fringe realm of 4chan message boards for ages, doxxing went mainstream in the 2010s, with the Gamergate fiasco.

There are no Sharia courts in Texas only voluntary Muslim mediation panels operating under the same framework used by Jewish beth din courts and Christian arbitration services. Yet in a letter sent to district attorneys and sheriffs demanding an investigation, Abbott wrote that The Constitution's religious protections provide no authority for religious courts to skirt state and federal laws simply by donning robes and pronouncing positions inconsistent with western civilization, implying that Muslims were secretly building an alternative legal system.

from day one of this administration, I have tried to speak truth to power,

The president is fulfilling his promise to restore a Department of Justice that demands accountability. And it is not weaponizing the Department of Justice to demand accountability for those who weaponized the Department of Justice, and nobody knows what that looks like more than President Trump. We are not going to tolerate gaslighting from anyone in the media or from anyone on the other side who is trying to say it is the president who is weaponizing the DoJ.

Donald Trump sees himself as the person who gets to decide everything. And he doesn't care about any separation. In fact, he absolutely rejects the idea that there should be a separation between criminal investigations and the politically elected leader of the United States. This is much different than it's ever been run before, Christie told ABC's Jonathan Karl in a discussion about the recent FBI raid on John Bolton's home.