In case you didn’t know, federal law enforcement is not working for you but for the reelection of Donald Trump.
This is the state of the Trump presidency. According to the Washington Post, Donald Trump wants to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray after the election because “federal law enforcement has not delivered his campaign the kind of last-minute boost that the FBI provided in 2016, according to people familiar with the matter.”
All of the so-called investigations into Hunter Biden, the supposed spying on Trump’s campaign, and the “unmasking” probe have gone nowhere. And now Trump wants retribution.
Not only that, Trump has called for the jailing of his opponent, much like he did with Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Post writes:
People familiar with the discussions say Trump wants official action similar to the announcement made 11 days before the last presidential election by then-FBI Director James B. Comey, who informed Congress he had reopened an investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state after potential new evidence had been discovered.
Trump emphasized the point in an interview Tuesday with Fox News, saying “we’ve got to get the attorney general to act” and that Barr should do so “fast.” The president was alluding to information about Hunter Biden recently touted by Trump’s private lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and based on the contents of a laptop computer purportedly belonging to the former vice president’s son.
“This is major corruption,” Trump added, “and this has to be known about before the election.”
And it’s not just Wray. Attorney General Bill Barr is also in Trump’s sights. The Post writes:
The attorney general has been drawn into some of those disputes as the president has complained that a hoped-for report from Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is scrutinizing the Russia investigation’s origins, is not expected to surface before Election Day.
The president has stopped praising Barr and instead strikes a more critical tone toward him. Trump declined to answer a Newsmax reporter recently when asked if Barr would be kept around for a second term.
