Donald Trump's Framework of Consequences and Incentives

Donald Trump's insatiable urge for payback has quickly transformed into a methodical framework. Within the twelve months, the chief executive's rage and caprices have assumed the shape of administrative measures in a manner analogous to historical dictatorial systems. Federal personnel who fail to comply are immediately dismissed and substituted by supporters. Critical leaders who confront him face prosecution, judicial process and penalties. Opponents have been categorized under presidential memoranda as “unpatriotic”, “anti-Christian” and “anti-capitalist”, and menaced with criminal charges as “terrorists”.

The Justice System Restructured

Each case involving targeting of political opponents and protection for his allies displays its own unique features. Yet, despite their individual form, they represent expressions of what has emerged as a deliberate technique. Such events are anything but coincidental. The administration's cleansing of Department of Justice prosecutors and FBI personnel, accompanied by his appointment of supporters in key roles, started swiftly, quickly assumed a consistency, and has now been formed into a system. Federal prosecutors and the FBI have been remade into political organizations under his clear command to implement his demands. Wrongdoing has been turned into routine. It constitutes the system of punishment.

Management is focused with punishing the leader's supposed enemies than they are with protecting our country's safety.

Within the System

The origin of this system has been exposed in the court filing of multiple previous senior law enforcement officials filed in late summer in the federal court in Washington against FBI director Kash Patel and top lawyer another official for illegal termination in “a initiative of revenge against them for what the accused deemed to be a failure to demonstrate sufficient political loyalty”. The document states that one official, the ex- interim leader, recounts a conversation in which he “openly acknowledged the impropriety of his conduct”.

Driscoll had tried to defend FBI agents from being fired, the complaint states. He informed him that “they” – perceived by Driscoll to be the White House and DoJ – had directed him to fire anyone who they identified as having participated in a criminal investigation against him. The complaint goes on: “Patel clarified that he had to terminate the individuals his leaders told him to dismiss, because his chance to hold his own role relied on the ouster of the personnel who were involved in investigations involving the President. The director explained that there was no option he or Driscoll could do to halt these or any other dismissals, because ‘the bureau attempted to put the leader in jail and he remembers.’” After Driscoll informed the director he was breaking the agency's own internal rules, the director allegedly said “he knew that and he realized the nature of the summary firings were almost certainly unlawful”.

Widespread Consequences

After the director's alleged acknowledgment to Driscoll, the justice department and the FBI have been dismantled and redirected for the administration's system of punishment. Six of the FBI's high-ranking agents were terminated or forced out in the initial period of the government. About numerous professional attorneys at DoJ have agreed to a “early exit scheme”. At least several government attorneys, such as those in the New York office, resigned in dissent over what they regarded as partisan influence in dropping the corruption case against the New York City mayor, a political figure, in exchange for his cooperation with Trump's ICE arrests of foreign nationals. The anti-corruption unit of the justice department, which manages misconduct investigations, has been diminished to a handful of lawyers. The civil rights division has been decimated: the majority of its staff has departed. A third of senior leaders at DoJ have left. The unit enforcing environmental law has experienced the exit of a majority its management.

Favors and Punishments

Regarding the mayor's situation, the temporary lawyer for the NY office, she, resigned in objection against what she described as the “quid pro quo”. Tom Homan, the president's “border czar,” showed up as the enforcer with the mayor on a media outlet to announce: “Should he fail to deliver, I'll reappear in the city.”. And, another figure, formerly the justice department figure and a former Trump attorney, who brokered the arrangement, was given an court role, a likely stepping stone to the judicial branch.

Trump's protection for offenses perpetrated while in office, granted by the unprecedented judgment of the Republican majority on the highest court, thus blocking his legal action over the political violence and safeguarding his public standing for the national vote, is the basis on which he stands to protect his loyalists. Given this protection, he has been liberated to permit wrongdoing. The effect of the court judgment infuses his administration and the political party down to its bones. Trump v United States has escalated. Similar to a past leader's White House counsel the figure said about the Watergate