The rule of law and efforts from Trump supported by a compliant administration to create workarounds

so that the rule of law effectively does not apply to him. Since taking office, the president

has tested legal boundaries by deploying troops to American streets. Used emergency power to justify

sweeping tariffs, even though no emergency existed. Greenlit military strikes on alleged drug

boats without congressional approval and told the Justice Department who it should target.

The latest officials on that list, former Attorney General Merrick Garland and Trump's former FBI

director Chris Ray. In order to achieve these goals, according to the New York Times,

Charlie Savage, Trump follows a two-point plan.

Quote, the first is that Trump has told executive branch lawyers that they may not question any legal judgment that he or Attorney General Pam Bondi already decided.

The second is that Trump has been declaring that as president, he has determined that the factual and legal scenarios exist that are necessary for him to exercise various extraordinary powers.

The president's campaign of retribution, and he seemingly has found enough officials in Department of Justice and U.S. attorneys to carry out his bidding.

Yes, I consider the presidency today as a presidency of revenge and retaliation for personal offenses against the president.

That is, personal offenses in his view, committed by his

political opponents whom he now calls his enemies from within. But this prosecution of the former FBI director is part and parcel of the same plan for revenge and retaliation against all of his political enemies.

And that plan is now underway, and we've not even begun to see the end of it yet. As you know, the president

has accused former presidents of treason and everyone else in the Democratic Party of wrongdoing

against America.

I guess how planned out was it really?

Yeah.

I think it's important to look at the four-year interagin where Trump is not in office,

and he's at Mar-Lago.

He's sort of stewing over what he views as, you know, his false times of the election.

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