President Donald Trump’s politicized Department of Justice has abandoned major white-collar prosecutions in favor of waging legal war against Trump’s perceived political enemies. But a White House whistleblower from Trump’s first term says there will be no way to hide Trump’s lawfare from investigators when he leaves office — no matter how much paper he shreds.
“[T]he Trump administration is not hunting fraud. It’s hunting down its enemies with anything it can find. ‘Fraud’ just happens to be the easiest label to apply,” said former U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) analyst Miles Taylor.
Trump’s DOJ used “welfare fraud” as the “thinly veiled pretext” to launch a massive political shakedown in a state that Taylor points out is led by Democrat Tim Walz, who dared to challenge Trump for the White House in 2024. Before it was halted by a federal judge, Trump’s DOJ tried to investigate Walz for allegedly impeding the president’s immigrant crackdown.
“The true nature of Trump’s ‘anti-fraud’ plans came into view last year, as the White House pursued retribution against New York Attorney General Letitia James, the woman who won a nine-figure civil fraud judgment against Trump,” said Taylor. “In September, the president publicly demanded on social media that “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” Weeks later, a former White House aide indicted James for alleged ‘mortgage fraud.’”
But look to the money to see Trump’s true motivation, said Taylor.
“A White House genuinely obsessed with protecting taxpayer dollars would not be spending nearly a billion of those dollars (much of it raided from other agencies) to gild the White House and build a ballroom, or just as much to retrofit a luxury jet from Qatar. You cannot loot the treasury with one hand and call yourself its guardian with the other.”
But Trump’s presidency is already nearly halfway through. When he’s gone, he will be a powerless target.
“[W]hen power changes hands, which it eventually will, we will seek all the documents, including every criminal referral memo, target list, email between the White House and the task force, hand-written notes from the vice president’s fraud meetings, and so on. All of it will be subpoenaed and reviewed, whether by a new Congress next year or a new Justice Department after that,” said Taylor. “And guess what? They can’t shred it all on the way out the door, because they’ve trapped themselves.”
Paperwork, emails and private notes, assured Taylor, is the lifeblood of the prosecution process.
“If they want their prosecutions to survive, there must be evidence, discovery, and a chain of custody. The records must exist somewhere, or the cases go away. I suspect that when investigators finally follow that paper trail, it will lead exactly where the Letitia James and Adam Schiff cases already point — back to the White House — and to proof of the deliberate weaponization of the American government against its own citizens,” said Taylor.
“That’s when the real fraud trials will begin,” he added.