Following an unusually public rebuke of Donald Trump by Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General, over implications of criminal behaviour by the former as part of a guilty plea by Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the subsequent retaliatory tweets by the President, the US Attorney General had this to say: “While I am Attorney General, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations”. It was a clear indication of the Justice Department’s independence from political interferences.

If only, here in Malta, we had public officials made of sterner stuff.

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