It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
During President Trump’s first term, demanding personal loyalty didn’t always work; stocking top jobs with loyalists is the tack now. At the F.B.I., this entails bucking its institutional history.
Kash Patel’s public praise of the QAnon conspiracy theory suggests he sees its adherents more as an audience to be courted rather than an ideology to follow.
Kash Patel, Donald J. Trump’s choice to run the bureau, has made a series of spurious assertions about the Russia, Jan. 6 and classified documents inquiries.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon said prosecutors should not be allowed to share the report outside the Justice Department, adding that it contained information that had not been made public.
President-elect Donald J. Trump believes he has been wronged by current and former officials, members of the media and more.
The once and soon-to-be president takes advantage of the blurry lines between appearance and perception, between reputation and reality.
The decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon not to issue an immediate ruling raised the possibility that President-elect Donald J. Trump would take office in the meantime and have power over the report’s release.
The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.
Jack Smith wrote that Donald Trump would have been convicted had the case been allowed to proceed and explained why he didn’t pursue charges of incitement of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who dismissed the classified documents case, blocked a volume about that matter from being shown to Congress but allowed the release of a volume about the election case.