So much for law and order: Trump kills anti-crime task force
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is reportedly moving to dismantle the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces—a decision that could grind thousands of criminal investigations to a halt.
Bloomberg reported Monday that the administration has ordered the Reagan-era task force, created to take down drug cartels, human trafficking rings, and transnational crime syndicates, to shut down by Sept. 30. Its Virginia-based fusion center will also close, and the unit’s 2026 fiscal year budget will be “zeroed out.”
The timing is bizarre. This is the same task force that helped capture Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán—the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, possibly the largest drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere—and seize over $2 billion from criminal enterprises. Why shut it down?
As is normally the case with Trump, there’s no clear explanation—just a sudden directive and more chaos. The move comes just weeks after Trump abruptly fired the task force’s director, Adam Cohen, despite reportedly collaborating with him on a new strategic memo.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/5/2320684/-So-much-for-law-and-order-Trump-kills-anti-crime-task-force
Everything with Donny boy is performative but ineffective.
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Everything is for sale. When something doesn’t make sense, ask yourself two questions.
Who would pay Trump to do this.
Do they have the money to do it.
If yes/tes then there’s your answer to “why?”
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