Donald Trump’s administration quietly abandoned more than 23,000 criminal cases within the first six months of his presidency, including 11,000 within Attorney General Pam Bondi’s first month in office alone, according to a sweeping analysis from ProPublica.
While the Department of Justice retreated from thousands of cases — from drug trafficking and terrorism to fraud, money laundering and white-collar crimes — federal prosecutors launched 32,000 new immigration-related cases, nearly triple the amount pursued under Joe Biden’s administration, the investigation found.
