POLITICS
Trump’s Revenge Tour
He wants to throw Alvin Bragg in jail for doing his job
So last summer I wrote an article about a group of Trump loyalists who were already mapping out Trump’s next administration, lining up candidates for jobs like Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, to avoid the chaos of Trump’s first administration.
You remember those early days, right? Trump thought that he could run the government like he ran his company. Just hire whoever, send them to HR to be put on the payroll, and then assign them an office. He was both surprised and dismayed to discover that job candidates had to be vetted and then approved by the Senate.
By the end of his administration, he had figured out a way around that ridiculous process. He just hired whoever he wanted and made them an “acting” whatever. Not outside approvals necessary.
Some things he never figured out. Or didn’t want to figure out. Like the fact that the Attorney General wasn’t his personal lawyer and the Justice Department wasn’t a private law firm on retainer to the presidency.
Trump is still stuck there. He is so sure that he will be elected to a second term that he is already planning how to use the Justice Department to get back at all of the prosecutors, especially the “racist” Alvin…
