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What is the New York Mayor and Prosecutor situation? (self.explainlikeimfive)
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I am not american and have only a brief understanding of their procedures and stuff. I heard somewhere that this situation is similar to what lead to nixons resignition. I am just very confused to what the accusations, plans, intrigues ect. are.

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[-] Saganaki@lemmy.one 1 points 1 week ago

The briefest of summaries (keeping in mind hand waving details)

  • NY Major is charged with taking bribes from the Turkish government
  • Trump ordered attorney in charge to drop the case
  • Attorney after attorney resigned with scathing resignation letter rather than drop the case because the decision to drop is obviously political
  • DOJ isn’t supposed to be political but independent
  • Almost 3x the number of attorneys resigned here than under Nixon
  • Under Nixon, this was the flame that started his impeachment. Under Trump, crickets.
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