Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u... - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/spacex-elon-musk-discrimination-doj.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Comments

ericcolumbus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not that it diminishes your point at all, but how did you come up with “almost four years”? Bove said it would be reviewed after the November mayoral election.

emptywheel.bsky.social•1 day ago

The obstruction charge they want to charge was June 2024.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/21/judge-dale-hos-messy-dockets/

ukrainolution.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s all fun and games until the locals rise up and seize one of his factories because its a symbol of the broken economy.

livviesjam.bsky.social•1 day ago

💰💰💰

dandadad.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is this not the exact same pretext (a criminal prosecution held open for years) that Trump used to accuse Hunter Biden of corruption?

birdwatcherx33.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Why? What’s the rationale for this dismissal?

bobbifl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Corrupt intent in trump's DOJ?

justnews4you.bsky.social•1 day ago

Contracts can be dropped in 4 years.

commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social•1 day ago

Corruption.

alexcharles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Putin-esque

wayneesmith.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Why, yes, because it is biased, fraudulent quid pro quo, anti-American, vengeful, authoritarian, and plutocratic. Simple.

starlightwishes.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Rule of Law only applies to people who don't have Billions now.

lstewartsc.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's called corruption.
Like you see in third world countries.

khazad-dum.bsky.social•22 hours ago

It's all about the corruption, baby!

heavymode.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Corruption junction what’s yo function

contentwithsmiles.bsky.social•17 hours ago

How else would they be “up his ass”

anaphoristand.bsky.social•23 hours ago

A perhaps underappreciated proceed from Trump's first impeachment, and the extortion of Zelenskyy? He seems to've wholescale adopted Viktor Shokin's model of federal prosecution as a protection racket.

blinkndash.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hopefully this decision will be appealed.

flatblade.bsky.social•1 day ago

The DOJ, or more widely, the Trump administration is a giant protection racket. If you do what I tell you, you won't get hurt. Trump has already extracted tens of millions of dollars and squeezed people to do what they know they shouldn't do. The courts are the best hope of curtailing this.

retiredpatriot.bsky.social•22 hours ago

RICO user to mean something.

spartan47.bsky.social•1 day ago

Isn’t this the way the Mafia works?

olympicdane.bsky.social•1 day ago

The corruption is kicking us in the face and no one seems to care.

pdambournet.bsky.social•23 hours ago

🎯

probon.bsky.social•1 day ago

"With prejudice"? Oh my, you'd think the Anti-DEI folk would not agree to the inclusion of this term on "principle." Apparently some kinds of prejudice they do like. Huh.

eltiante.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep, that's a head-scratcher 🙄

refugeefromx.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Assimilation. No. 7.

craigrcarl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who weren't they hiring, South Africans?

drrxufa.bsky.social•1 day ago

This Is fraud on the court.

jockeymom.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well I’d say what’s a good extortion without some leverage? Just a guess

drgeophysics.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good observation. Thanks.

laurie4anti-facism.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Maybe it's because he's not a billionaire 🤔?

markabuchanan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Any private suits based on this remaining on file?

riverane.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Nobody looking girl, as in thiss's a nothing🍔. MAGA firmly believe b/c he's "billionaire" he equally above+beyond ANY law, even after firing MAGA and their mom's from USGOV 🤣. MAGA will put up with anything this "rich" carcass throws at'em and he knows it, so MAGA's in for ++PAIN.

kagrox.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because they don’t understand that they can lose control of Musk.?

unnamedwill.bsky.social•1 day ago

Which is probably evidence that there's something deeper or more serious going on between Musk and Trump than just Musk wants to get his businesses out of some investigations.