President Donald Trump ordered his department of justice on Wednesday to investigate two senior officials of his first administration who became critics.
During his presidential campaign and in his first months in office, Trump threatened to investigate his political enemies, but the presidential memoranda he signed before the media in the Oval office seems to be his first formal directives.
One of Trump’s objectives is Miles Taylor, who wrote an anonymous opinion article of the New York Times entitled “I am part of the resistance within the Trump administration” in 2018 and the revealing book “A WARNING” in 2019. He also launched a group called Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform, or reparation, and supported the former President Biden in the presidential election of 2020.
While signing the memorandum, Trump said he believed that Taylor was guilty of “betrayal.”
The Secretary of National Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, and his Chief of Cabinet Miles Taylor leave after the lunch of the Republican Caucus in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 5, 2019. Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies during a hearing of the National Security Committee and Government Affairs Senate to discuss electoral security and the electoral process of 2020, on December 16, 2020, in Washington, DC, DC.
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Taylor served as the deputy director of the Cabinet of former Secretary of National Security of Trump, Kirstjen Nielsen.
Trump’s other goal is Christopher Krebs, who was Trump’s director of Electoral Security during his first term. Triumph Krebs fired by Twitter In 2020 because Krebs was correcting claims and rumors about electoral fraud in the 2020 elections. His dismissal occurred days after his agency and other federal officials issued a statement by saying that the election was the “safer in American history”, without evidence that the votes were eliminated, lost, changed or “somehow committed.”
After the January 6 attack against the Capitol, Krebs said Trump should be convicted of inciting an insurrection.
During her confirmation hearing, Pam Bondi, Trump’s attorney general who would direct an investigation from the Department of Justice, Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar asked if she assured that the White House would not play any role in the cases investigated or brought by the Department of Justice.
“Politics will not play a role,” Bondi testified.
