Trump is Soft on Corporate Crime
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump is expected to speak this afternoon at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). A Public Citizen report documented how his administration is rapidly halting and dismissing federal investigations and cases against alleged corporate lawbreaking. Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement:
“The DOJ helmed by Pam Bondi has clearly shown itself to be the polar opposite of the rule of law. Persecuting perceived enemies, removing personnel that investigated insurrectionists, and undercutting tools to investigate corruption are just a few of the early offenses.
“Pay attention to how Trump talks ‘tough on crime’ when attacking immigrants and smearing anti-war protestors – and, at the same time, casts law enforcement against corporate crime and corruption as unfair ‘weaponization.’
“Trump’s DOJ is already halting enforcement against corporations bribing foreign officials, has dismissed a case against corporate polluters poisoning majority Black communities, citing promises to attack DEI, and dismissed a case alleging illegal discrimination against Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
“Trump’s soft on corporate crime approach means leniency for corporate corruption, consumer rip-offs, pollution, and worker abuses.”