At this point, we are all pretty familiar with Trump's flood the zone strategy.

I mean, we've all seen it. This is what he does all the time.

Move fast, try to bend as many things as possible.

Throw so much at us at all times, including some completely bizarre obsessions with renaming things,

like lots of things, like the Gulf of Mexico, for example.

It's all kind of hard to keep up with

sometimes. I mean, that's the point, though. He wants to make it harder for us to figure out

what's real and what's just Trumpian bluster. But one way to cut through some of that, I think,

to figure out what's real, what he really cares about, what's going on in his head a little bit,

is to go back to January 20th.

And what did Trump prioritized when he was sworn into office a second time?

What did he care about?

Enough to do immediately.

Well, one of the first things he did, really actually the very first thing he did after taking the oath of office on January 20th,

is he installed this guy as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C.

Now, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, as you probably know, is one of the most important,

most powerful prosecutor's offices in the country.

And for the last few years, it has been in charge of

literally the largest criminal probe in American history, the investigation into the January

6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. And the moment Donald Trump took office again, he put a guy

named Ed Martin in charge of that office. Now, Ed Martin has zero experience as a prosecutor.

And he was also literally at the Capitol on January 6th. And he described it this way. He said it was great.

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