Trump starts "cleaning up" - and suffers first slap in the face: "Power overestimated"

Merkur Trump starts "cleaning up" - and suffers first slap in the face: "Power overestimated" Article by Laura May • 11 hours • 2 minutes reading time Donald Trump starts his campaign of revenge against the justice system that is persecuting him. But even as President of the USA, his power has limits. Washington - The US justice system and Donald Trump have not been the best of friends in recent years. A victory in the 2024 US election was therefore of enormous personal importance to Donald Trump. Without presidential immunity, he could have had serious legal problems because of his charges of hush money payments, rape and election fraud, among other things. As President of the United States, however, Trump has regained some of the power over the judiciary and directly announced that he would "clean up" the US justice system. According to a report in the Washington Post, Trump wants to fire the entire team around special investigator Jack Smith, who summarizes in 165 pages the crimes that Donald Trump is said to have committed in the fight to maintain his power. Donald Trump wants to "clean up" the US justice system The accusation of election manipulation in particular is piquant. But Trump is already preparing to strike back. According to anonymous information available to the Washington Post, he is said to have already put together teams in the Justice Department to investigate his lost election in 2020. Trump wants to search the contested states for evidence of why he lost the 2020 election due to alleged fraud. However, Trump's highest priority is probably personal revenge for the investigations against him. He himself does not consider himself guilty of any of the charges and sees all accusations as political incitement. "For too long, the partisan Justice Department has been used as a weapon against me and other Republicans," he wrote on his own platform, Truth Social. At the center of Trump's counterattack are personal details. On the one hand, the dismissal of undesirable officials such as Jack Smith. On the other hand, the filling of ministerial posts with loyal people. But Trump does not have unlimited power in this regard, even as President of the USA. This is shown by the withdrawal of his preferred candidate for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz. After Gaetz's withdrawal: "Clearly Trump simply overestimated his power here" According to ntv correspondent Gordian Fritz, serious allegations of sexual abuse of minors, drug use and a lack of legal qualifications explain that Gaetz simply lacks support among Republican senators. And Trump is dependent on the senators when appointing his ministers. "Clearly Trump simply overestimated his power here," says Fritz. After the withdrawal of preferred candidate Gaetz, Trump tried not to cause a stir and quickly nominated a new preferred candidate, Pam Bondi. The 59-year-old has been a Trump supporter for some time and stood by the then president in the first impeachment proceedings against him in Congress in 2019.