Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes Rails Against Defunding of the Police by the MAGA Republican- Epstein Class

What did people expect from the MAGA Republican-Epstein Class?

When a major political party is led by a 34-time convicted, twice impeached, and serial liar who has been found liable for sexual assault and who steers an Injustice Department to persecute political opponents and protect known pedophiles from legal accountability, should it really be a surprise that party members work to cut law and order programs and defund the police.

A series of revelations by news organizations like Reuters, ProPublica, and the New York Times has shown the Trump Administration has dropped the ball on:

• Federal prosecutions for drug trafficking are falling to the lowest level in two decades.
• Major job cuts in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.), Drug Enforcement Administration (D.E.A.), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (A.T.F.), and the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
• The defunding of over $800 million in law enforcement and public safety grants.
• Dropping 23,000 cases that dealt with white collar crime, fraud, terrorism, and drugs.

In Arizona, Legislative Republicans are looking to cut the State Attorney General’s office by five percent and refuse to consider legislation to go after price gougers who take advantage of consumers during a disaster or other emergency.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, whose office helped score a financial victory for Arizonans victimized by opioid addiction thanks to corporate greed, had a lot to say about the Trump and Arizona Legislative MAGA-Epstein Class Republicans cutting law and order programs.

On Trump and his regimes cutting of law enforcement operations, Mayes wrote in a statement:

“The Trump administration has been lying to the American people. You cannot claim to be tough on crime while systematically dismantling the agencies that fight it. When the federal government cuts thousands of law enforcement positions, like the Trump administration has done over the past year, the burden falls on state and local law enforcement agencies that are already stretched thin. I am grateful for the partnerships we have with those who remain at federal agencies and help keep Arizonans safe, but these cuts make that work harder. You cannot expect the same results with a fraction of the federal workforce.”

“We need more robust support from the federal government in Arizona to go after the drug cartels pushing poison into our communities, as well as to combat fraud, waste, and abuse and other white collar crimes. Instead, the Trump administration has pushed highly-qualified career law enforcement agents out of their jobs by the thousands and it will only make all of us less safe. This administration has quite literally defunded the police.”

On the proposed five percent cut to the Attorney General’s office budget, Mayes commented to Blog for Arizona:

“Warren Petersen and Steve Montenegro say their budget funds public safety – but their proposal would cut the Attorney General’s Office budget by 5%. My office prosecutes and investigates major drug cases, child sex crimes, and public corruption. This budget quite literally defunds the police and would make Arizonans less safe.“

On Legislative Republicans protecting their Plutocratic-Epstein Class donors from price gouging prosecutions, Mayes wrote in another statement:

“Arizonans should never have to worry that a disaster will be made worse by someone trying to make a fast buck off their suffering. That is exactly what price gouging laws are designed to stop. When floods wiped out businesses and homes in Globe and Miami last fall, Arizonans needed protection. My office proposed the tools needed to go after this problem. Republicans in the Legislature have decided we shouldn’t have that authority. That is a choice, and Arizonans should know they made it.”

“This isn’t a partisan issue, it’s common-sense consumer protection that most states already have. Why Republicans blocked this bill and left Arizonans exposed to price-gouging is beyond me.”