'This is a President who — again and again, in ways big and small — showed that he thought the Department of Justice was, effectively, his own personal law enforcement and legal team,' CNN's ChrisCillizza writes. | Analysis
The use of the Justice Department to seek private information from then-President Donald Trump's political rivals -- as well as the top lawyer in the White House -- are simply the latest evidence that the 45th president used the DOJ repeatedly for his own personal and political purposes, often aided and abetted by AGs Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Ask yourself this: If the President -- or his inner circle -- was willing to ask Apple for data on his own White House counsel, who would be out of bounds? Especially when you consider that Trump never demonstrated any understanding of the commitment to the long-held independence of the Justice Department. "A Rigged System - They don't want to turn over Documents to Congress," Trump wrote on Twitter in May 2018, wading into a fight over documents tied to the Russia investigation.
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