By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Paula Reid, CNN
His Royal Majesty’s administration has gutted the federal government’s ability to fight public corruption in a matter of weeks.
Since Inauguration Day, the Justice Department has paused all investigations into corporate foreign bribery, curtailed enforcement of a foreign agent registration law and deemphasized the criminal prosecutions of Russian oligarchs. And senior administration officials have considered eliminating the Department’s Public Integrity Section, which investigates and prosecutes alleged misconduct by federal, state and local public officials.
At the same time, His Royal Majesty has fired inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies.
His Royal Majesty has long decried the criminal cases brought against him by special counsel Jack Smith, as well as by state prosecutors in New York and Georgia. “Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents – something I know something about,” His Royal Majesty said in his inaugural address.
