Mary Trump - The Reddest of Lines

Donald never forgets a slight, no matter how insignificant. He spends a not inconsiderable amount of energy holding onto his grudges. No matter how many years or decades ago the perceived transgression took place, he will move to seek retribution against anybody he thinks wronged him—by criticizing him, telling the truth about him, or trying to hold him accountable. Thanks to an almost total impunity afforded to him by a suppliant Republican Party and the corrupt, illegitimate Supreme Court, and his increased sense of the failures, humiliations, and loss of control he experiences daily, his thirst for revenge has a new urgency.

Currently, Donald has been ordering his Department of Justice to launch investigations into his perceived political enemies regardless of whether there is any evidence of their having committed wrongdoing. In fact, it looks like he’s asking the Attorney General and others in the DOJ to fabricate evidence. This is an autocratic ploy made more dangerous by the fact that Bondi will almost certainly accede to Donald’s wishes, something Donald fully expects her to do.

It no longer matters that Attorneys General of the United States are supposed to be independent agents who do not take orders from the president, but this is where things stand: either Bondi ignores Donald’s directives, in which case she’ll almost certainly be fired and replaced with somebody even more pliable; or, the much likelier scenario, she’ll follow Donald’s orders in contravention of her oath, her office, and the rule of law.

Donald has also been bragging about firing Eric Siebert, now-former head of the Eastern District of Virginia, whom he described as a

Democrat [sic] supported US attorney in Virginia with a really bad Republican past a woke RINO who was never going to do his job. That’s why two of the worst Dem senators pushed him so hard. He even lied to the media and said he quit and that we had no case. No, I fired him and there was a great case and many lawyers and legal pundits say so.