If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition.
The former special counsel, who led the Russia investigation during President Trump’s first term, has had difficulty speaking in recent months. A congressional committee dropped a request for Mr. Mueller to testify this week.
The extraordinary pushback in at least three separate cases comes as President Trump has flooded the streets with National Guard troops and federal agents.
Crime has fallen in Washington since federal agents started policing Washington’s streets in large numbers, but the surge has chafed against some residents who have found the presence of troops and agents to be a cause of fear, not of security.
Crime has fallen since federal agents started policing the streets of Washington in large numbers. Court records show that they have been involved in about a third of arrests that resulted in prosecution, many of them for minor offenses.
Many of the arrests in Washington, D.C., involving federal agents have been for low-level offenses. A man was taken into custody in the Columbia Heights neighborhood Aug. 22 on a charge of smoking marijuana in public.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has struggled to convince judges and grand jurors of the viability of several cases arising from President Trump’s deployment of troops and federal agents to fight crime.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum put the gun on display Thursday, soon after the federal government released thousands of pages of records on the Till case.
It is not clear what country intercepted Mr. Bolton’s private emails, but the investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser picked up momentum under the Biden administration.
It is the latest effort by President Trump and his allies to impugn the Russia investigation, which the president sees as having been a partisan witch hunt.
The premise of the new inquiry is that classified documents related to the Russia investigation were mishandled at F.B.I. headquarters in downtown Washington, where the director and his senior aides work.
It is highly unusual for prosecutors to fail even once to obtain an indictment from a grand jury given the way the process is stacked in favor of the government.
John Bolton, then serving as President Trump’s national security adviser, in the Oval Office in August 2019. He held the position for a little over a year.
It is not clear what evidence the authorities have that John Bolton mishandled classified information, but President Trump’s efforts to punish rivals immediately stoked questions about the investigation.
Edward R. Martin Jr.’s conduct is part of a pattern in which top administration officials try to use the vast powers of the government to cast the specter of criminality on President Trump’s enemies.
Edward R. Martin Jr. has said that if he is unable to successfully obtain indictments against the targets of his inquiries, he will name and shame them.
The move appears to diminish the authority of the current deputy director, Dan Bongino, whose tumultuous tenure has included a pitched argument over files related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In the nation’s capital, federal agents have operated a sobriety checkpoint, made gun and drug busts and carried out other day-to-day police work. Some residents are uneasy.
The attorney general cleared the way for the police to aid in immigration enforcement and named an “emergency” commissioner, setting the stage for a conflict with local authorities.
In the face of mounting discontent over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, President Trump has turned to deflection, denial and downplaying.
While President Trump socialized with Jeffrey Epstein decades earlier, they had a falling out in the 2000s and there is no public evidence that the president was involved in any of Mr. Epstein’s illegal activities.
One of the suspects is a former Brinks employee who had recently been fired. The robbery was one of five similar crimes in the area in less than two months.
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