'Trump crime spree' flagged over report that federal law enforcement collapsed under admin
Federal law enforcement has collapsed as the Department of Justice focuses on President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
A Reuters review found that between January and April, federal prosecutors in Minnesota charged eight people with gun or drug offenses compared to 77 in the same period last year, which amounts to a 90 percent collapse in serious federal criminal prosecutions.
"New gun and drug prosecutions stalled. Several top prosecutors quit. Some federal agents disappeared from drug task forces and gang cases," Reuters reported. "Others took the unusual step of bringing their investigations to state authorities."
Prosecutors have charged 90 people felonies so far this year, about half as many as last year, and those felony cases include 39 defendants – among them journalist Don Lemon- accused of disrupting a church service during a protest of the immigration surge, and another 17 of those criminal cases involve immigration-related offenses.
“You can’t tell me that sex trafficking and drug trafficking and that kind of thing is less important than people going into a church to protest,” said Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, the top local prosecutor in Minneapolis.
Critics on social media accused the president of enabling criminals while focusing on non-violent immigrants.
"President Trump has touted his Minneapolis operation - which deployed more feds than the area has police officers - as a way to get tough on crime," said Reuters correspondent Brad Heath, who was on the team that reviewed the Minnesota statistics. "But the operation so upended federal law enforcement that now some agents are taking the unusual step of bringing their cases to local prosecutors."
"The undertold story of the Trump administration is how criminal law enforcement has collapsed - from gun violations to white collar crimes - as DOJ resources focused instead on nonviolent immigrants," noted writer and law professor Nathan Newman.
"Combined with pardoning J6 terrorists the 'trump crime spree' is free framing for Dems (which they should have used in 2020 when Trump caused a crime spike)," offered blogger Oliver Willis.
