Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has said it’s “absolutely not true” that the Justice Department is assisting President Donald Trump in a retribution campaign against his enemies.
But the evidence suggesting otherwise is getting more incontrovertible.
CNN’s scoop Wednesday that the Justice Department is investigating E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who successfully sued Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, builds out the unmistakable pattern.
That pattern: Trump’s DOJ has taken investigative steps against key figures who were on the other side of most of Trump’s major legal issues in recent years.
It would be a remarkable coincidence that people involved in each of these matters just happened to be involved in alleged criminal matters that were worth probing in the first 16 months of the second Trump administration. But that’s where we’re at.
