Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · Feb 5 Emil Bove *tries* to back off his illegal and improvident direction to the FBI but even if it is to be believed (that may be a big “if”) he still is saying he wd take action in violation of civil service rules (and the firings that have already occurred violate those rules).
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Reading this, I have a pretty good idea which reporters Bove is using.
Erica Newland once commented that the government has a lot of great lawyers but Donald Trump, not so much. With Trump's crony lawyers now in charge, I'm hopeful they will stumble at every challenge to their absurd directives .
Never let them them renogiate from very illegal to somewhat illegal or mostly fascist to a Roman salute.
Again getting the message "Be Loyal. Obey Orders." from this memo, which is setting a very dangerous ground for law enforcement under a Trump administration to be working on.
He can commit any crime as he got a blanket pardon from the crime boss he worked for. Also many white-only law firms will give him a sweetheart position since he got the tech bros purse.
I don't believe a word of his memo. Its as sincere as trump saying that he was only going after criminal migrants.
The enemy within. Hmmm. Who exactly is that? Said differently, aren't we all in MAGA-ESE radical left lunatics. We are the enemy within. Stop pussyfooting. When they call you their enemy, WAKE THE FUCK UP--YOU AIN'T "THE LOYAL OPPOSITION." We're their enemy--SO NECESSARILY, THEY ARE OURS.
Nursery school slogan tucked in at the end (“.. make America safe again”) 😔
"when was “doge” created? where are its offices located? what is its charter? who are its officers? where can i find its bylaws, policies, and procedures? by what authority does it act? to whom is it accountable? to what oversight is it subject? just asking questions" Sam Brody
Pretty soon they’re going to stop letting people use their phones at work. Better get some 007 glasses to get us the scoop.
Why don't they just have an independent Inspector General go over these cases and make a determination if any employees acted out off bounds? Oh wait, Trump fired them already.
"If you're innocent you have no reason to not comply."
So sick of trump's idiotic "make america whateverthefuck again" formulation. Bad enough they are ruthless authoritarians, but to voice it in this treacly sing-songy pablum is nauseating.
He can fuck off into the sun
He's a liar.
People harmlessly and needlessly lose jobs and lives are disrupted, and taxpayers pay for the lawsuits. Brilliant,if you're a nihilist.
For a lawyer who does not realize he's committing a string of felonies is quite telling. Why would someone in this profession want to lose his license, his career, his family, and go to prison for some mentally ill person?🙄
“If you have witnessed such behaviour, I encourage you to report it through appropriate channels”. Encouraging civil servants to report on one another is a feature of Totalitarianism.
DON'T TRUST ANYTHING TRUMP, MUSK AND THEIR APPOINTEES SAY OR DO.
MAGA delenda est #magadelendaest
Emil is pretty sure that he saw people not being Republican enough, and by god there’s going to be hell to pay.
Bove, from The American Nazi regime? Liar
Wow that’s the most hypocycloid walk back I’ve ever seen. How to dance when you’re told your ass is in legal trouble when the shit finally hits the fan while trying not to piss off the boss.
Bove is the biggest shithead of shitheads! 💩💩💩💩💩
We know who he is. There’s no backing off.
Prosecute Bove!
THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED
So for argument sake, let’s say an FBI Officer refused to follow orders and look into a J6 case, by this email, they would have been acting in a partisan manner. 🤔
Thank you so much for breaking down some of this nonsense going on. GO CIVIL SERVANTS!!!
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There is nothing to lead one to believe a lawyer simply carrying out the President’s orders can be trusted…..obviously Bove does NOT know how to protect his own livelihood……
It appears he also left his email for us. Shouldn't we all send him a little note?
It's still very threatening and intimidating ("political" actions and exercise of "discretion" which prosecutors always do).
Horrible
That's a lie. Wr are in trouble.
Thank you Andrew, for being a voice of reason and sanity and informing us of the legality or illegality of trumps actions. You are a great asset to this country.
Awww isn’t Emil so special…is he stomping his feet yet?
Up is down; the sky isn’t blue; lying is truth; and American isn’t already great 😭
You know how many hockey sticks that would rain down on this guy if he was in Canada.
If it looks like bullshit,smells like bullshit, and tastes like bullshit..
“Weaponization” does not belong in any official communication, unless in quotation marks.
Thank you, Mr Weissmann. It’s disorienting trying to keep up with this inexorable march toward authoritarianism. You are in invaluable resource for Americans.
Trump’s personal defence counsel trying to exact vengeance. He was saved from losing badly by corrupt Judge Cannon & Justice Roberts.
Terrifying
It is a witch hunt. Trump is trying to after those who enforced the rules of a fair election and stood in his way for a dictatorship. If this were not the case, Trump would be happy with his win and move on.
Oh sure okay we believe that
It’s also open to interpretation of “weaponisation”. THIER interpretation.
This is shocking having witnessed to events that unfolded on January 6, 2021. The criminality was then and remains obvious. All agents participating in that investigation were doing important work to ensure justice for America. Labeling any aspect of that work as partisan is nuts!
When you throw that much rope out to hang yourself with...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe REALLY think about shit before you act.
Little signs of their incompetence and backing away in the face of opposition are about the only encouragement I find right now. But I do enjoy their little defeats.
What if ... every single person that got one of these "Quit" letters actually either quit or took a sick day. All at the same time. Hmmmm.
I want to see he Judges refer them to the bar in their states for criminal misconduct and Ethics violations and sever sanctions like 3 months... This is what happens when you sign to represent a criminal and forego years of education to be a complete moron..
How does the bold as brass pardon and then firing Justice and FBI leadership lend credibility to this Bove led witch-hunt? Does the federal bar or state bar expect attorneys to faithfully follow the law or work against established precedent to make a felon president ignore that conviction?
He’s still a piece of crap
I heard this & I don’t believe him one bit. I think every federal employee should stay. Make this admin back off or face lawsuits & complaints.
Jail!
They need an internal revolt. Sabotage everything. A military coup might be in order.
That memo reeks from the lies it is telling. It’s more of a - let me gaslight you - memo than anything else.
Why won't they simply arrest him? The #FBI seems to be unable to do their jobs
Fuck him and his entirely ill intended memos
"bcc: All Federal Employees"?
They either have evidence that SOME agent(s) acted "improperly" or they don't. If they have evidence, it needs to point to a specific act, from which an investigation can be made to identify the potentially guilty party. All they've got is "they were mean to us" and a fishing expedition.
All maga in power (Presidency, Congress, SCOTUS) must go! It’s time for the felon, criminal, Constitutionally disqualified Russian asset & political thief & his cronies (from Project2025 & loyalists) to go! He is illegitimate. When criminals rule the land, no one is safe. bsky.app/profile/mous...
He's an example of Everything Trump Touches. I guess money and power have gone to his head. Shameful.
Emil Bove out there acting as though he has the authority to decide anything. It’s cute. Just like Marco Rubio, Trump will decide and they’ll stumble over themselves to do what they know is wrong but are too scared to speak up.
Serious question ? Do they think we are stupid? We perform at s higher level I can assure you
Who determines if they carried out their duties in an ethical manner....?? And why aren't they just assumed to have done so as was the case in ALL administrations up to the point of the election of the current FOTUS!
Remember 3 SCOTUS justices lied to the Congress..
So Bill and Sharon, fictional FBI agents, go to lunch one day during Biden’s presidency. Sharon casually starts to talk about Trump calls him crazy, Bill says yep. So now they can be fired for this casual conversation?
"...make America safe again." America has been getting safer since Reagan bsky.app/profile/thed...
GOP's D-felon-T Capitulation Syndrome
“bcc: All FBI Federal Employees” Is the “Federal” redundant? I mean it’s the Federal Bureau of Investigation, so aren’t all the employees Federal Employees. #fbi #learnenglish
Rules are only as good as those willing to enforce them. As we have seen the current administration in charge of enforcing the rules only wants to do the ones they agree with or change them to suit their desires. Putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Violating his constitutional duty.
tRump wants retribution for every conceived slight. He’s putting people that will happily do his dirty work and exact retribution on his perceived enemies. In the meantime Elon is taking control of the government. tRump’s happy with retribution and Elon is happy taking control of our government.
I’m pretty sure they could “commence a review process” without a list of names. This is just unhinged. I’m glad people are pushing back.
Resist this!!!
The only way to “Make America Safe Again” is to throw Bove et al out
"There is no honor in the ongoing efforts to distort that simple truth or protect culpable actors from scrutiny on these issues, which have politicized the Bureau, harmed its credibility, and distracted the public from the excellent work being done every day." Wow. Impressively oblivious.
Action vs. Talk. Now will Bove/Musk/Trump do what they say????
Emil Bove is guaranteeing himself jail time.
This create an 'us and them' scenario. 'You've done nothing wrong so you're fine' lulls the scared and confused into believing they are safe, so they either collude with or do not oppose the actions, and can point fingers at the accused as 'bad people'. Classic KGB
Bove:
January 6th is a fine example of the use of DARVO. Republicans Deny that the 🍊 💩 was responsible, they Attack Democrats, saying the police and Antifa started it, and they Reverse the Victim and Offender, claiming victimhood for themselves. Republicans are narcissists.
F that guy
the word is turning i hope this coup is stopped dead on its tracks, collaborators charged for attempted crimes, the election rigging uncovered and prison sentences copiously doled out. i hear there’s new capacity at gitmo
Save this document for the national archives. History will not look to kindly of folks doing these illegal acts. Plus I heard trump flushes documents down toliets and burns documents in fireplaces.
Bove sounds to me like the one acting with “corrupt or partisan intent.” The list should consist of one name: his.
He was getting away with it until "...or exercised discretion in weaponizing the FBI." That's a catchall for anyone who spotted a lead and followed it, or did anything beyond just the literal following of an order in the least possible way. Any real investigators are doomed by this. It's a trap.
Our INTEL 👁️👁️ I pray someone is watching for the American People. Sure as 💩, I know he's not & never will be a leader. President is only a title without leadership it's zero.
Unfortunately there is no one to stop him from committing many crimes for the next 4 years. The lawyers are just as crooked as the evil clown
Gee... who will be the judge of this?
So now we're weaponizing the doj against federal employees.. got it
He’s hoping to get $ash confirmed. Then they can really go wild.
I call bull shit!!
Emil can go to hell.
Big question is if all FBI is under investigation, who will investigate them?
But of course all employees will have to be investigated to determine which ones had that intent.
Umm, is he still acting as Trump's personal defense attorney?
Fbi dosent even need Kash Patel to be weaponized. Us, the citizens of this country are going to have to take care of this. Prepare people. Yall know it's coming.
So, Andrew- hear him already. He is going to do illegal things because he has betrayed his oath to justice. Too late to argue the case here. Why not bring one against him? And if you already have and I missed it, good on you.
Well that’s the problem he’s talking Trump when it’s President Elon who’s in charge. Darling, you can invite the devil in and then expect him to behave…. Good luck
Trump bootlickers try to speak out of "both sides of their mouths" at the same time. I think that our Federal district Judges are starting to realize that themselves and their rulings will start reflecting that.
Nothing says leadership and crisp management like multiple conflicting and clarifying memos about ill thought out and illegal policies!
So, if there’s no risk to them, why bother naming them?
The “5 Alarm Fire’ … the payment systems and all the other systems that have been hijacked should be the only news and on repeat!!!!! Please help!!!!!
THIS is weaponization! We citizens have eyes - we saw what went down on January 6 - we know what we saw, and it was WRONG. Cheeto was the instigator.
WHAT A POS THIS LETTER IS...HE KNOWS THE LAWSUITS ARE HAPPENING AND THEY WILL SHOW NO MERCY...
#FBI Don't trust any of them M***F**** 🍊ass kissers !
Can’t read the text but hope Emil fails
hunter biden would like a word.
Good lord this is very, very Orwellian 🤬🤮
Nice that he asks people to report anyone politicians the Bureau. I wonder how many people reported him.
File lawsuits now!!!!
Wait, he said that leadership was "biased and corrupt" yet in this memo he claims that he was "actually" just looking for a list of thr agents who went against leaderships orders? What the ...what? Are they this stupid, or is this another shell game?
Mmmmmm
He's in over his head. How long until he and Blanche bail for bigger $$$?
Methinks Bove is talking from both sides of his mouth, indeed....would be interesting to see him do that in front of a judge. BTW, I hold the whole Trump/Musk wrecking crew responsible for any unsolved major crimes or succesful terrorist attacks on US soil from now own.
Uh oh. Someone’s getting scared. Love this for them.
Hey, Bove. Let me save you a lot of trouble. Federal government employees at the level you're addressing (high level FBI investigators), don't give a flying fuck about partisan politics when they're on the job. We get training in that. It's one of our core values. Trump will never understand.
IMPEACH ALL THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. BOVE AND BONDI AND OTHERS NEED TO BE DISBARRED. GOOD LUCK FINDING A JOB AFTER THIS.
It's all BS. "Only those who acted in a partisan manner" are at risk; who's going to decide what this means? Actually, we know; partisan = investigate MAGA insurrectionists.
Can we just put them ALL under ATTAINDER, take their stuff and take them out back and make them a head shorter? Sincerely, a Medieval Historian
Weenie
Can you sue him personally??
It follows then that he is the one who should be fired.
The FBI could make life difficult for a certain subset of people in government right now, just saying
It was difficult to read the image you posted, but phrases like "...or exercised discretion to weaponize the FBI" (approximate) make it clear his intent, i.e., to go after anyone that attempted to enforce the law against Donald Trump.
it'd be a real shame if the FBI, NSA, and CIA all focused their attention squarely on Emil Bove's background and why he's been picked to try to take them apart.
He is evil to the core and will only do evil things.
I don't believe it. It's clear that there IS a vendetta against the people who investigated Jan. 6. Trump hasn't just said so numerous times, he literally encouraged and elevated threats against Liz Cheney. If he wasn't out to get them, he wouldn't have pardoned all the J6ers.
Everybody, relax. The list wasn’t for firing people, it was just about starting the PROCESS to help me THINK about firing people. You don’t have to worry if you don’t think I’ll think you exercised your discretion to weaponize the FBI. That should be very easy for you to discern.
Most law enforcement are protected from public disclosure, so yes elons actions violated the law…. Elon is not a government employee, sue him personally
How to threaten people without threatening them: ""those ... who have done the right thing for the right reasons"
Felon 47 is such a hateful, vile, vulgar individual. 😒
Trump meets the DSM-V criteria for dementia. Elon Musk meets the criteria for elder abuse of a demented senior citizen. When are you going to start reporting on this mental health crisis in the White House so appropriate action can be taken? Bill Pederson, MSW, Prin. Lect. Social Work Emeritus NAU
Among the millions of excellent points you have made, pls accept my thanks for your use of the word IMPROVIDENT. 💥😎👏💯🤩🔥💪🙌 You've made my month!
when do all these people so utterly lose touch with reality, decency, self-respect??
I call bull sheets. Because a pile of bull shit isn't big enough to cover these lies. RESIST! You're going to be fired ANYWAY.
lies, lies lies, yeah
Fuck him.
Would love to see Elon's little digital Gestapo try to go in and just take the data.
But if the president orders it and has immunity for it, is Bove also immune from prosecution?
“Responsible for”?!? The insurrectionists are responsible for criming.
Elon is trying to figure out how to stop payments to the FBI etc then he can freeze them all out
Fuck Emil Bove, lying traitorous piece of dogshit...
Why is the Subject prefaced by [EXTERNAL EMAIL]? Was this a Reply-All to a DOGE external email? Did he send this to personal email addresses? Did he send it to his own personal email and bcc:FBI employees? Weird.
These Nazis must be stopped