Insiders believe Donald Trump would use the federal government to go after his perceived enemies in a second term—and Joe Biden could be at the top of the list.
to boot. But apparently it’s nothing compared to what former administration officials fear he’ll do to his perceived enemies—a group that includesmagazine published on Monday, former federal prosecutorthat a number of individuals who served in Trump’s Justice Department the first time around are deeply concerned about Trump’s thirst for retribution in the event he retakes power.
One person who would no doubt be at the top of Trump’s retaliation list? The guy who cost the ex-president a successive term.Against this backdrop, Trump’s threat to prosecute President Biden deserves serious attention. Ever since Biden’s election, conservative politicians and media figures have portrayed him and his family as self-evidently corrupt, and a probe by House Republicans that began this year continues apace.
All Trump would need to do is find someone in his Justice Department—his attorney general or perhaps the head of the criminal division—who would accede to his demand for a Biden investigation, which could be conducted either by a hand-picked prosecutor in the department or a special counsel recruited from outside and appointed by the attorney general. A prosecutor could easily spend years trawling through the Biden family’s business dealings.
Of course, people would have to agree to do Trump’s dirty work for him, and the hope is that enough people would say no. But as one former official warned: “My fear is in a second Trump administration, he would keep firing people until he found people who were willing to act on his requests. And ultimately, eventually, he’ll be able to find people like that, and I think he did. He was surrounded by people like that at the end of the first administration.
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