"When Trump returned to the presidency this year, he sought payback by accusing others of the crimes for which he'd been indicted or convicted. The political ally Trump appointed to head federal housing programs-Bill Pulte, heir to a large home-building fortune-has called for a mortgage-fraud investigation of Letitia James, the New York attorney general who won the 34 convictions against Trump. Pulte has also urged investigations of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and legal actions against Senator Adam Schiff and Fed Chair Jerome Powell."
"Trump has denied advance knowledge of the raid on Bolton's home and office. Yet his denial included a smug hint that maybe he knew more than he cared to admit: "I don't want to know about it," he said, but later added, "I could know about it. I could be the one starting it. I'm actually the chief law-enforcement officer.""
"Trump has been demanding the jailing of Bolton for half a decade. The president's ultra-politicized law-enforcement team-Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino-would not need a direct order to understand what Trump wanted them to do. Patel in particular was mistrusted by colleagues in the first Trump administration as someone willing to do anything Trump wished, no matter how improper."
After leaving the presidency in 2021, Donald Trump was indicted for retaining dozens of government documents, including some containing nuclear secrets, and was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records; his company was convicted of criminal tax fraud. Upon returning to the presidency, he pursued payback by accusing others of the crimes for which he had been indicted or convicted and installing allies who pushed investigations of critics and officials. Bill Pulte urged probes of Letitia James and others. The FBI raided John Bolton’s home and office in a probe of improperly retained classified documents. Trump denied advance knowledge while implying he might know or even authorize such actions, and his law-enforcement team is characterized as highly politicized, with key figures mistrusted by former colleagues.
Read at The Atlantic
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]