The Wall Street Journal announced a twist in President Donald Trump’s purported crusade against the weaponization of the justice system: He’s now targeting his own former aides.
Trump — the nation’s first president to be elected after having been convicted of felonies — campaigned on ending the “weaponization” of the federal government, but the WSJ reports he is now “siccing it” on two of his perceived enemies, ordering federal investigations and possible prosecutions.
The editorial board calls this “a broken promise, an abuse of power, and another twist down the spiral of politicized law enforcement.”
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On Wednesday, Trump directed allegedly independent federal agencies to open inquiries into two former officials who worked in his first term. The paper notes how Trump made a point of “picking targets first, publicly announcing them, and only then looking for misdeeds and evidence.”
“Mr. Trump,” the board said, “is doing precisely what Democrats did to him.”
Trump’s first “target” is Chris Krebs, who led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) until two weeks after the 2020 election when Trump fired him for dispelling Trump’s bogus claims of voter fraud.
The other, Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor, allegedly “stoked dissension by manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of a supposed ‘resistance’ within the Federal Government.” Trump has ordered “review” of Taylor’s “activities” and “conduct,” with recommendations for “remedial” action, but opined: “I think he’s guilty of treason, if you want to know the truth.”
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Read the Wall Street Journal’s full article at this link (subscription required).