DOJ aims to drop 'politically motivated' lawfare after Trump victory



The Department of Justice has moved to end the legal cases brought against President-elect Donald Trump following his victory on Wednesday.

The DOJ reportedly cannot prosecute a sitting president, requiring the agency to disband any ongoing legal cases against Trump before Inauguration Day. Special counsel Jack Smith is expected to be "gone from his post" before Inauguration Day, meaning the cases will be dropped before January 20.

'I call on Attorney General Garland, Alvin Bragg, and Fani Willis to immediately terminate the politically-motivated prosecutions of President Donald Trump.'

Trump's electoral victory was announced early Wednesday morning after he successfully won North Carolina and flipped Georgia and Pennsylvania. As of this writing, Trump has also flipped Wisconsin and Michigan. Following his victory, prominent Republican voices have called for an end to the lawfare.

In the aftermath of his historic victory, several Republicans called for Trump's criminal cases to be dismissed, arguing that the "American people have spoken."

"The American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump and decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years," former Attorney General Bill Barr said in the aftermath of the election. "They did that with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country, and I think Attorney General Garland and the state prosecutors should respect the people’s decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now."

Trump also received bids of support from members of Republican leadership.

"The American people have spoken: the lawfare must end," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in a post on X following Trump's victory. "I call on Attorney General Garland, Alvin Bragg, and Fani Willis to immediately terminate the politically-motivated prosecutions of President Donald Trump."

In the past few years, Trump has been the subject of an onslaught of legal battles. Most recently, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York and is scheduled to be sentenced on November 26.

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Trump is returning to Butler, Pennsylvania, for another rally — and why it's a big deal



People might assume that Donald Trump would steer clear of Butler, Pennsylvania, after narrowly surviving an attempt on his life — but then they would be wrong.

The former president plans to return to Butler, Pennsylvania, for another rally on October 5 — and Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” believes it’s an incredible show of strength.

But Trump isn’t the only one who has refused to go into hiding after a brush with his own mortality.

Steve Scalise survived an assassin’s bullet himself. The House majority leader ended up in the hospital for three and a half months after the shooting.

“I was fighting for my life,” he tells Glenn. “I made an early decision, because I really needed to put all my focus into getting better. I had to learn how to walk again.”

“Once I got that mindset, I said, ‘You know what? I’m not looking back. Like literally, rip off the rearview mirror. I’m not going to worry about what got me here.' God spared me,” he continues, adding, “I knew I was given a second chance.”

Trump visited Scalise on the day of the shooting in the hospital, which happened to be the former president’s birthday.

“He and Melania came, really consoled my family at that lowest moment. But I just made a decision, I’m not going to be a victim; I’m not gonna focus on why he did it, why I got here,” he explains.

After Trump survived his first attack, he told Scalise it was “divine intervention.”

“Here’s a man, Donald Trump, who’s put himself up for persecution by so many different people who have gone after him,” Scalise says. “And yet, he still moves forward. He still knows I have to do this for the country, and he believes that, and believe me, the country believes that too.”


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