Trump's DOJ's incompetence is on full

display under former Fox News anchor

Janine Piro. The former Fox News anchor

was appointed by Trump to be the US

attorney under for Washington DC and she

was in fact confirmed by the Senate

unlike some of his other appointees.

Well, as it turns out, under her

leadership, there is an astonishing 21%

dismissal rate for criminal cases

compared to 0.5%

rate over the prior decade. My name is

Dena Dah with the Midas Touch Network.

Let's get into this. Now, this is just

another example of what we're seeing in

real time where we're seeing the DOJ

fail to be able to secure either

indictments or convictions despite the

fact that they have been trying many

times. Now, Janine Piro did have some

legal experience prior to being a Fox

News anchor. This is why she was

actually able to get confirmed by the

Senate. She had served as a district

attorney and she had served as a judge.

But just like everybody who got

appointed in Trump world in this 2.0

second term, she was so extremely

politicized. And we know this because of

what she had said on Fox for years.

Let's take a listen to what she said

back in 2017 about how she thought the

DOJ should be handled before she then

became a head of the part of the DOJ.

Take a listen. There is a cleansing

needed in our FBI and Department of

Justice. It needs to be cleansed of

individuals who should not just be

fired, but who need to be taken out in

handcuffs. Now, there have been times in

our history when corruption and

lawlessness were so pervasive that

examples had to be made. This is one of

those times. handcuffs for Andrew

McCabe, deputy director of the FBI, the

man at the hub, protecting Hillary and

attempting to destroy Trump. The irony,

of course, is that cleansing of the DOJ

that she speaks of. Not only can she not

effectively go after and obtain

indictments and criminals, having this

astonishing 21% dismissal rate, but

lawyers are leaving in droves. And so

the cleansing that she actually meant,

she wanted to go after political figures

in the Democratic party. Instead, what

happened is career prosecutors left in

droves. According to the American Bar

Association, thousands of lawyers across

the country under the DOJ have left the

DOJ. Janine Pero herself said that they

need to recruit more and try to argue

was because they hadn't hired enough

lawyers in the past. But that's not

true. She has lost at least 90 lawyers

just herself. The fact is, as the

American Bar Association so reasonably

puts it, the reason why lawyers go into

government legal work versus private

practice where they're often paid more

is because one, job security. Usually

government employee has job security and

two because they believe in the work

they do. They believe in public service.

Both of those things, public uh

security, job security and public

service have been completely demolished

under Trump. For one, we saw what he did

Elon Musk and Doge and this complete

disrespect for federal employees and

firing people, you know, in mass and

without reason and without cause and the

complete chaos and flip of the head of

any kind of job security for a federal

employee, including lawyers. And then,

of course, the public service. You see

that he's using the civil rights

division instead of actually going after

hate groups instead twisting it and

trying to use it to silence free speech

across the country and against

universities. You see it by him trying

to take away people's citizenship with a

DOJ memo literally going out to offices

across the country saying that they

should look into whether or not to strip

people of their citizenship. These are

the things lawyers are seeing. These are

why they are leaving in droves. And so

instead you have people who have like

Janine Piro a political vastly political

idea of what law and order should be and

at the same time the lawyers who carry

out the work from a dayto-day business

leaving and as a result you are seeing

complete incompetency. Of course, it

takes a little bit of um measure of good

faith, let's say, or a little bit of

hope to see the incompetence on full

display when they tried to go after

people who should not have been

prosecuted to begin with. This just

actually happened in Los Angeles. They

had tried to prosecute a Tik Tocker who

actually had been shot by ICE. And they,

the DOJ, handled the case [snorts] so

badly, so incompetently that his case

was outright dismissed by a judge. One,

they failed to allow him access to

counsel. One of the most basic

fundamental rules of law, doesn't matter

how many years you've practiced, you

understand everybody has a right to

counsel. They also fail to comply with

discovery requests. The thing is, no

matter what kind of law you're doing,

criminal law, civil law, there's always

deadlines. There's always discovery

requests. Each party seeks information

that only the other party has, and you

have to turn it over in a timely basis.

This is something every lawyer deals

with all the time. Well, according to

the judge, they did not turn over body

cam footage on a timely matter. One,

that's either complete incompetence

because they don't have lawyers doing

the job anymore because so many have

left because Bondi and DOJ and Janine

Piro are just clearly politically, you

know, not trying to actually go after

law and order. But secondly, maybe

because the body cam footage was going

to exonerate the person they were trying

to prosecute. Either way, this

incompetency

at least is redeeming when it is going

against a political indictment because

people should not have the weight of the

government and the power of law

enforcement to go against them to

silence free speech, to quell protest.

That is the most fundamental part of our

democracy. Take a listen at just this

recent dismissal because of the vast

incompetency of the DOJ.

>> A federal judge has dismissed an

indictment against a Tik Tok streamer

shot by a federal agent in October in

South LA. That judge says Caritos

Ricardo Paris, who goes by Richard LA,

was denied access to his lawyers while

being held in detention. The judge also

cites the government's failure to meet

discovery deadlines, including timely

release of body camera footage of the

shooting. Agents accused Pereus of

ramming his car into their vehicles

after they boxed him in, but video

raises some serious questions about

those claims. His trial was set to begin

on Tuesday. The judge dismissed the

indictment with prejudice, meaning

prosecutors cannot refile the same

charges again, but Pereas could remain

in detention as his immigration case

moves forward. Jenny Piro was willing to

do Trump's bidding even before she was

appointed as the US attorney back when

she had her own show during the 2020

election. She was one of the biggest

perpetrators talking about it being

stolen when in fact it was not. And

during the Dominion lawsuit, so much

came out that she actually lost her own

show and instead had to be part of the

roundt five conversation.

of a producer had said that she was

quote a reckless maniac that she was

that bad at factchecking. She was

willing to talk about complaints that

had been dismissed outright saying that

those affidavit were still viable facts

news sec news news sources. The fact is,

even Fox, who is so unwilling to put out

biased and misinformation that they had

to pay out nearly a billion dollars in

that Dominion lawsuit, even they thought

she was taking it too far, that this

producer at Fox called her a reckless

maniac as to her willingness to put on

me uh information that was not facts.

And they even Fox thought she had gone

too far to take away one of her show.

But that was a redeeming quality for

Trump. And I'm sure a big reason why he

appointed her as US attorney. But the

fact that you cannot get around is that

if you are so unwilling to work within

facts and reality and the rule of law

and you take that against our criminal

justice system that has a robust checks

and balances in place in order to

determine that somebody cannot be

convicted with actual facts and rule of

law. You see the disintegration of their

indictment rate. this high 21% dismissal

rate compared to 0.5%

this vast anomaly. You see this is what

happens when you put somebody in charge

of the law and use it against people in

a way where you use it abusing your

power. When you use it disregarding

facts and law, you see this high

dismissal rate. Thankfully though, it is

protecting people against their

incompetency, against their willingness

to use their power to abuse them. If you

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