The bureaucrats who conducted illegal lawfare against Donald Trump and Republicans are running scared and lawyering up.
Good.
I am not a fan of using government power to enact revenge or to wield political power as a cudgel, so I don’t want Trump to create a witch hunt against anybody who disagrees with him. But if he does this right, he will be excising a cancer by prosecuting those who did precisely that over the past 8 years.
Current and former senior DOJ and FBI officials are reaching out to lawyers in anticipation of being criminally investigated by the Trump administration, people with knowledge of their deliberations say. https://t.co/5HvKLBiNNT
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 18, 2024
No doubt, some left-wing conspiracy theorists will claim that Trump will be using lawfare against his political enemies, violating the norms that have kept our…