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DOJ and FBI officials reach out to lawyers as potential Trump revenge prosecutions loom
Legal experts say Trump's choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, signals the president-elect's determination to tightly control the Justice Department and prosecute adversaries.
Multiple current and former senior Justice Department and FBI officials have begun reaching out to lawyers in anticipation of being criminally investigated by the Trump administration, according to three people with knowledge of their deliberations.
Following Trump’s decisive election victory, many Justice Department officials and career staffers were already nervous about the possibility that they would be targeted by Trump loyalists, particularly members of Congress. But the selection of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a firebrand Trump ally who was the subject of a recent FBI investigation, to lead the department has sharply increased the sense of alarm, the sources said.
“Everything we did was aboveboard,” said a former senior FBI official who has started contacting lawyers because he expects to be prosecuted himself. “But this is a different world.”
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DOJ and FBI officials reach out to lawyers as potential Trump revenge prosecutions loom
Legal experts say Trump's choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, signals the president-elect's determination to tightly control the Justice Department and prosecute adversaries.www.nbcnews.com
These DOJ officials are shitting their pants. Are the practitioners of lawfare afraid of their own weapon of choice?
I wonder how they will feel as they spend their lives savings and sell their houses to pay their legal bills? Because that's
what they were doing to conservatives over the last four years.
