Trump signed Executive Order Yanking Security Checking of Percin’s Coie lawyers

President Trump said on Thursday that he had suspended the security checks of lawyers at Perkin’s Coie, a law firm that is connected during the opposition research that is fundamentally funded Presidential campaign 2016 In any relationships between Mr. Trump and Russia.

The sanction against Perkin’s Coie is the youngest in a number of steps by Mr. Trump and his administration to address a broad cross-section of perceived opponents, including prosecutors from the Ministry of Justice, career secret services and finally private lawyers.

“This is an absolute honor. What you did is just terrible. It is a weapon – you could say a weapon against a political opponent, and it should never happen again,” said Trump when he prepared to sign the executive regulation in the Oval Office.

The Order has the Attorney General, the director of the national secret services and other relevant agency, “steps to take the right to comply with the applicable law in order to expose all active security checks of people at Perkins Coie until a review of the agreement with the national interest corresponds.” It is not stated how many lawyers from the law firm would be subject to the loss of their shares.

In addition, the agency instructs the heads to restrict access to state buildings by lawyers from the company.

In a statement, a spokesman for the company said: “We checked the executive regulation. It is obviously illegal and intend to challenge it.”

The punishment results from the attitude of Perkin’s Coie of Fusion GPSA research and intelligence company to conduct opposition research on the candidates of Trump’s potential relationships with Russia. The arrangement was mediated by Marc Elias, who at that time was a well -connected partner at Perkins Coie and Top Lawyer for War Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign 2016But who has left the company since then and started its own practice.

In return, fusion GPS retained the former British spy Christopher SteeleHis research dossier was spread among journalists and government officials in Washington during the campaign. The dossier, which was handed over to the FBI for his review, claimed that Russia tried to support Trump for many years, and has accumulated compromised information about him.

In the meantime, the material has been largely discredited since then, since it is kind and not checked rumors that associated Trump with Russia, whereby the special advisor John Durham 2023 on the origins of the Russia investigations of the FBI with the inscription FBI investigator who attempted to confirm the findings of Steel were unable to verify a “individual content -related suggestion confirm”. Steele confessed.

In January 2017, the dossier created a political fire storm when it became known that the then FBI director James Comey Trump had informed before he took up an office because of the existence of allegations from research. The subsequent revelation, which the Clinton campaign and the democratic national committee financed the dossier, added questions about the legitimacy of Steele’s research, which Trump repeatedly attacks as “wrong” and inaccurate.

Trump and his allies have long tried to use the dossiers’ mistakes to undermine the entire study to connections between his 2016 and Russia campaign. But the investigations began in the possession of Dossier and opened on the basis of a completely different tips -that a Trump campaign claimed to know that Russia had dirt over Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent before Russia had chopped democratic e -mails.

And although the examination of special advisors Robert Mueller did not come to the conclusion that Russia and the Trump campaign had led criminal to use the election, it identified a comprehensive effort of the Kremlin in order to intervene in the name of the Republican candidate, as well as evidence that the campaign welcomed the help.

Since taking office, the Trump government has released prosecutors from the Ministry of Justice, who took part in the investigation by special consultant Jack Smith in Trump. It also said that the security reviews of lawyers roam the Smith Jural service, and the dozens of former intelligence officers who signed in a letter from 2020 that the laptop saga of Hunter Biden was the characteristics of a Russian disinformation campaign.

The Executive Order of Perkins Coie also claims that the company describes the Trump administration as illegal diversity, justice and inclusion.

This is followed by a guideline by General Prosecutor Pam Bondi in the past month, which asks the Department of Civil Rights of the Ministry of Justice to examine, eliminate and punish “illegal” DEI preferences, mandates, guidelines, programs and activities in private sector and in educational institutions that receive federal funds “.