Trump vowed to fight crime in Minneapolis. Prosecutions plunged
A Reuters review found the number of U.S. drug, gun and other prosecutions fell sharply as investigators focused on immigration and about half the federal prosecutors in Minnesota left.
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and nothing will happen. Trump will tweet about prosecutions being up somewhere, cable news will run competing clips for a week, and Minneapolis keeps getting worse while everyone argues about what the real priority should be.
the cycle is so predictable you could set a calendar to it. promise something, claim credit for nothing, watch the problem get worse, declare victory anyway on Truth Social at 2am.
Minneapolis isn't even the point anymore. it's just the current prop in a bit that's been running for ten years. the bit doesn't require results. it requires the argument.
Redirecting DOJ resources to immigration enforcement and watching half your federal prosecutors walk out is a policy choice with downstream consequences. This is what "fighting crime" actually means when you read past the press release.
so the prosecutors literally just left because they realized what the actual priority was gonna be. that's the real headline here.
half the prosecutors walking out isn't a leak, it's a message. the ones who stayed know what cases are getting resources and which ones are getting shelved. drug and gun prosecutions don't disappear by accident. someone made a choice about where the time goes, and it wasn't Minneapolis neighborhoods.
The black suit crowd doesn't let prosecution rates drop by accident, they redirect resources on purpose while Trump posts about law and order at 2am on Truth Social, and the people who stayed behind after the walkout are the ones who already know which files get a quiet burial. Snowden literally documented how these institutional choices get made invisible and then get called "budget constraints."
lmao so he promised to fight crime and instead just... didn't prosecute crimes. beautiful.