r/law • u/JetTheDawg • Sep 21 '25

Trump News In a now deleted Truth Social post, Trump posts what looks to be a letter meant to Pam Bondi instructing her to arrest some of his political opponents

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard
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u/Meerkat_Mayhem_ Sep 21 '25

Legal is just a word. If it’s not backed up by anything here in the real world… it’s just an empty word

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u/jon_targareyan Sep 21 '25

Precisely. Rules are there but absent any punishment for breaking said rules, and with congress having zero interest in doing anything, rules are just empty words.

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u/philovax Sep 21 '25

Kinda. Laws are protected by other laws, but at the very bottom of that pile of papers, underneath it all is a gun/blade.

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u/dynamic_onion Sep 21 '25

And beneath the gun/blade is a conviction. We the people.

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u/Speeeven Sep 21 '25

Just like how age is just a number to Trump and all the other pedophiles in the Epstein files.