President Trump signed decrees on Wednesday punishing two officials from his first administration and an elite law firm, pursuing a reprisal campaign that he has cheerfully carried out since his inauguration.
Two decrees targeted Christopher Krebs, who, as a senior cybersecurity, supervised the 2020 presidential election, and Miles Taylor, who was chief of staff to the Ministry of Internal Security during Mr. Trump’s first mandate and anonymously wrote a high -level opinion article for the New York Times in 2018. Attorney General, the Kristi Notem, the Secret Pam Bond, the Scain investigates the former officials and report their conclusions to the White House.
A third prescription targeted the law firm Susman Godfrey with several of the same sanctions as Mr. Trump applied to other law firms who had taken into account or the causes he did not like. In 2023, Fox News agreed to pay $ 787.5 million to resolve a defamation action filed by Dominion Voting Systems for the promotion of disinformation by the 2020 elections. Susman Godfrey represented Dominion, a manufacturer of voting machines that the lawyers combined with Mr. Trump attacked with bizarre claims on generalized voting fraud.
The decrees reflected the desire for political remuneration of Mr. Trump. Trump obtained punishment – among others – Republicans and elected officials from his administration who challenged or opposed him later.
Trump also sought to rewrite the history of his defeat in 2020 and continued to repeat his lie that the election was stolen from him. Mr. Krebs, leader of the agency responsible for protecting electoral machines against foreign interference, killed Many False allegations of Mr. Trump from general fraud, and Trump dismissed Krebs a few days after his loss. Trump continued to shelter profound feelings against the agency.
“This guy, Krebs, said” Oh the election was great “,” said Trump on Wednesday by signing the order. He added, from Mr. Krebs,: “It is fraud. It is a shame.”
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