New York Times: “If Trump wins, he can use the Justice Department, including the FBI, to seek revenge against his political enemies — even if, as in the cases above, there is little or no evidence of a crime. Doing so would go far beyond anything Trump pursued in his first term.”
“There are multiple safeguards in the American legal system.
They largely held when Trump was president. Will they hold again if he has a second term? We posed that question to 50 former top officials from the Justice Department and the White House Counsel’s Office, along with a few retired judges and nonpartisan career DOJ lawyers. The former officials, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, have served seven presidents.”“Most of them are freaked out about Trump’s potential impact on the Justice Department.”