Biden gets support of former U.S. attorneys, twenty four in number. The attorneys are Republicans and their rationale for siding with Biden is that they find Trump, “a threat to the rule of law in our country.”
In addition, they urged that he be replaced in November with Biden.
The attorneys said in an open letter, “The President has clearly conveyed that he expects his Justice Department appointees and prosecutors to serve his personal and political interests.”
Trump has been accused Trump of taking “action against those who have stood up for the interests of justice.”
The letter, signed by prosecutors appointed by every GOP president from Eisenhower to Trump, is the latest instance of Republicans backing Biden. In August, dozens of GOP national security experts signed a full-page newspaper ad endorsing Biden over Trump.
Trump has joked about losing the elections in his speeches.
The letter continues, “He has politicized the Justice Department, dictating its priorities along political lines and breaking down the barrier that prior administrations had maintained between political and prosecutorial decision-making.”
Ken Wainstein, a former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., organized the effort. He later served during the George W. Bush administration as assistant attorney general for national security.
Trump’s campaign spokesman dismissed the letter from the former prosecutors as arrogant and offensive, noting that it is Trump who has the support of police officers and their unions.
In criticizing the Trump Justice Department publicly, the signers effectively joined half a dozen or so career prosecutors who publicly protested what they have decried as politicized decision-making, including reducing a recommended prison sentence for Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone and seeking to dismiss the case against Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
The letter continues that Trump, on the other hand, has undermined the Department’s ability to unify and lead our nation’s law enforcement by picking political fights with state and local officials in a naked effort to demonize and blame them for the disturbances in our cities over the past several months.”
A former two-time U.S. attorney in Minnesota, Thomas Heffelfinger, a Republican fixture in the state, shared a series of actions led him to sign the letter, including the president’s treatment of women, his personal and political demands of the Justice Department, and his handling of the aftermath of George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody.
“He badmouthed the mayor, the governor, leaders who were trying to get things under control,” Heffelfinger said. “Trump was interfering, demoralizing local officials and dividing the country.”