Thursday evening’s PBS NewsHour warned of Trump persecuting his political opponents in a second term, and they pretended that no one is presently prosecuting his political opponents in their first term. Anchor Amna Nawaz dragged out the “without evidence” swagger:
Anchor Amna Nawaz: For months, former President Donald Trump and his allies have claimed, without evidence, that the Biden administration has weaponized the Department of Justice to pursue prosecutions against him for purely political reasons.
But, as Laura Barron-Lopez explains, the presumptive Republican nominee has also suggested that a second Trump term could see an escalation of those prosecutions.
Laura Barron-Lopez, White House reporter: Amna, Donald Trump first called for his political enemies to be locked up during his 2016 campaign. Now he’s forecasting plans to enact such threats…
