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Donald Trump’s satya social post Request to the Attorney General palm bondi According to administration officials, the letter was a private message intended to prosecute his alleged political enemies without “delay.”
A post addressed to “Pam” from the president’s account on September 20 demanded “justice be served” against her Former FBI Director James ComeyWho was convicted five days later.
Trump – who suggested in his post that prosecuting his favorite targets was retaliation for the impeachment and indictments against him – is believed to have sent the message directly to Bondi, and was surprised to learn it was public, wall street journal Informed.
Bondi was reportedly upset by his mistake, which Trump immediately tried to correct with a follow-up message about an hour later praising Bondi for doing a “great job.”
The error offers a glimpse of how to fundamentally reorganize the Justice Department, whose historic independence has been stripped away under both Bondi and Trump.
When he was asked about the message At the Senate oversight hearing this weekBondy replied: “I don’t think he said anything that he hasn’t said for years.”
commi pleaded not guilty For lying to Congress and disrupting his first court appearance on the charges on Wednesday. The trial date is tentatively scheduled to begin on January 5, 2026, but Comey’s lawyers are expected to try to have the case thrown out altogether, citing Trump’s “retaliatory” prosecution.
Trump’s message to Bondi is likely to be at the center of the motion, which shows the judge overseeing the case saying the president directed the nation’s top law enforcement official to investigate the target he declared “guilty” before any charges were filed against him.
The Trump administration has ousted dozens of officials and government lawyers deemed insufficiently loyal to the president’s agenda, but in his Sept. 20 post, the president chose Eric Siebert, the now-former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia — whom Trump himself nominated and then placed in the role after he resisted pressure to prosecute Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Excluded from.
Trump complained in his social media posts that “nothing is being done” against Comey, James and Senator Adam Schiff, who “are all guilty”.
He complained that “We’ve almost appointed a Democrat-backed U.S. Attorney in Virginia who has a really bad Republican past,” despite Siebert being one of Trump’s own nominees for the post.
Trump called him a “woke RINO who was never going to do his job” and said they “fired him” because he would not pursue the case against Comey.
His personal lawyer Lindsay Halligan is “a really good lawyer, and likes you a lot,” Trump wrote in a message to “Pam.”
“We cannot delay any longer, it is destroying our reputation and our credibility,” Trump wrote. “They impeached me twice, and convicted me (5 times!) for nothing. Justice must be served now!!! President DJT.”
Three hours later, Trump announced on Truth Social that he was nominating Halligan, who had no prosecutorial experience.
Before Halligan entered office, federal prosecutors repeatedly sought to build a case against charging Comey, who is now the first former senior government official to face criminal charges as part of Trump’s retribution campaign.
According to an internal memo in which career prosecutors explained why they would not seek indictments, prosecutors determined that a central witness – Comey’s longtime friend Daniel Richmond, a law professor at Columbia University – would prove “problematic” and potentially prevent them from establishing the case, according to ABC News.
The memo stated that Richmond’s testimony would create “potentially insurmountable problems” for the prosecution.
In a highly unusual move, Halligan presented the case to the grand jury himself, and the grand jury voted to indict him last month.
According to court documents, a majority of the grand jury voted against indicting Comey on one of the three counts presented by Halligan. Only 14 of the 23 jurors voted in favor, leading to Comey’s conviction on two other counts – making false statements to Congress and obstruction of Congress.
during Her controversial confirmation hearing in JanuaryBondi promised to end the partisan “weaponization” of the agency against perceived political enemies — echoing claims by Trump and his allies, who have described the president’s own federal indictments as a politically motivated conspiracy against him.
At that hearing, he did not explicitly rule out prosecuting Trump’s targets. Asked again Tuesday whether he had received any instructions from the White House to investigate anyone, Bondy declined to answer. “I’m not going to discuss any negotiations,” she said.
Trump, Bondi and law enforcement at the Justice Department – now filled with loyalists and lawyers bent on overpowering the agencies that the president claims were weaponized against him – are also aimed at Other prominent Democratic officials also Progressive Fundraising Groups and one series of ideological opponents the administration is accused Linked to terrorist acts.
Prosecutors in Maryland are expected to bring charges against former national security adviser turned Trump critic John Bolton WSJ, After a raid on his house in August. The file of a case in federal court remains sealed.
Former FBI Director Christopher Wray, another Trump appointee who remained in the post under Joe Biden, is also under investigation, according to the newspaper, although the subject of the investigation is unclear.