{"id":133765,"date":"2025-09-23T16:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/23\/donald-trump-desperately-wants-to-prosecute-his-enemies\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:43:21","slug":"donald-trump-desperately-wants-to-prosecute-his-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/23\/donald-trump-desperately-wants-to-prosecute-his-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Desperately Wants To Prosecute His \u2018Enemies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s not content just being president. He wants to be a prosecutor in every district where he has an enemy, so that he can make the decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie<\/a>, in comments made during an appearance on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d<\/a> where he discussed the fallout from President Donald Trump\u2019s demands that Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute his perceived enemies, including former FBI Director James Coney, Senator Adam Schiff, and New York Attorney General Letitia James. \u201cPeople believe those decisions are now being made for personal reasons, not legal ones. And that creates a slippery slope in our justice system,\u201d Christie said. \u201cNow, we will have a very difficult time coming back from [it].\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s not content just being president. He wants to be a prosecutor in every district where he has an enemy, so that he can make the decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie<\/a>, in comments made during an appearance on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d<\/a> where he discussed the fallout from President Donald Trump\u2019s demands that Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute his perceived enemies, including former FBI Director James Coney, Senator Adam Schiff, and New York Attorney General Letitia James. \u201cPeople believe those decisions are now being made for personal reasons, not legal ones. And that creates a slippery slope in our justice system,\u201d Christie said. \u201cNow, we will have a very difficult time coming back from [it].\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Donald Trump\u2019s not content just being president. He wants to be a prosecutor in every district where he has an enemy, so that he can make the decisions. \u2014 Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, in comments made during an appearance on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-H8oFWR.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}