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Maddow Blog-Trump says he has no evidence to justify his unprecedented Biden investigation
Just because Trump keeps ordering investigations into his perceived foes — three times in three months — doesn’t mean we should see it as normal.
Biden, Krebs, Taylor: For the third time in three months, a sitting president ordered an investigation into a perceived political foe.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-06-06T16:43:14.994Z
Just because Trump keeps doing this doesn’t mean we should get used to it or see it as normal. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-says-no-evidence-justify-unprecedented-biden-investigation-rcna211439
Late Wednesday, Donald Trump broke new ground, directing the Justice Department to launch a wide-ranging investigation into Joe Biden and officials in the Democrat’s administration, based on Republican conspiracy theories about the former president’s mental health. It was an unprecedented move: An incumbent American president had never before publicly ordered a federal probe of his predecessor....
The day after the incumbent president delivered his directive to Attorney General Pam Bondi, as NBC News reported, a reporter asked Trump a good question.
The Republican specifically said, “No, but I’ve uncovered, you know, the human mind. I was in a debate with the human mind.” He went on to say, “So, you know, it’s just one of those things.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lquqjyozfe2h
......In this country, federal law enforcement is supposed to launch investigations when presented with evidence of wrongdoing. As of now, however, the Trump administration is less concerned with the existence of evidence and more concerned with a president who believes he’s “uncovered, you know, the human mind.”
I can appreciate why the media landscape is crowded, but I continue to believe this should be more than a one-day story. Trump — who ran on an authoritarian platform, who’s trying to concentrate power while expressing indifference to the rule of law — has now ordered three investigations into Americans he doesn’t like.......
He has an enemies list, and he’s using the power of the presidency to target people on that list, despite the inconvenient fact that there’s no evidence whatsoever of actual wrongdoing.
If the pushback is muted, Trump will do what he’s always done: assume that he can get away with such an abuse, while preparing to go even further down the same radical and dangerous path.
Not to put too fine a point on this, but if the president can sic the Justice Department on his critics and perceived enemies and this isn’t seen as a dramatic scandal, who’ll be next? How far down his enemies list will he go?
I’m reminded anew of J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative legal scholar put on the federal bench by President George H.W. Bush who published a Bluesky thread on the orders against Krebs and Taylor, calling them “shameful” and “constitutionally corrupt” and accused Trump of “palpably unconstitutional conduct.”
The more routine this becomes, the greater the severity of the offense.
The day after the incumbent president delivered his directive to Attorney General Pam Bondi, as NBC News reported, a reporter asked Trump a good question.
Trump said he does not have evidence to support his claims of illegal autopen use during the Biden administration. Asked by NBC News whether he has uncovered any evidence that anything specific was signed without Biden’s knowledge or that someone in the former president’s administration acting illegally, Trump said, ‘No.’
The Republican specifically said, “No, but I’ve uncovered, you know, the human mind. I was in a debate with the human mind.” He went on to say, “So, you know, it’s just one of those things.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lquqjyozfe2h
Link to tweet
......In this country, federal law enforcement is supposed to launch investigations when presented with evidence of wrongdoing. As of now, however, the Trump administration is less concerned with the existence of evidence and more concerned with a president who believes he’s “uncovered, you know, the human mind.”
I can appreciate why the media landscape is crowded, but I continue to believe this should be more than a one-day story. Trump — who ran on an authoritarian platform, who’s trying to concentrate power while expressing indifference to the rule of law — has now ordered three investigations into Americans he doesn’t like.......
He has an enemies list, and he’s using the power of the presidency to target people on that list, despite the inconvenient fact that there’s no evidence whatsoever of actual wrongdoing.
If the pushback is muted, Trump will do what he’s always done: assume that he can get away with such an abuse, while preparing to go even further down the same radical and dangerous path.
Not to put too fine a point on this, but if the president can sic the Justice Department on his critics and perceived enemies and this isn’t seen as a dramatic scandal, who’ll be next? How far down his enemies list will he go?
I’m reminded anew of J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative legal scholar put on the federal bench by President George H.W. Bush who published a Bluesky thread on the orders against Krebs and Taylor, calling them “shameful” and “constitutionally corrupt” and accused Trump of “palpably unconstitutional conduct.”
The more routine this becomes, the greater the severity of the offense.
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Oh dear gawd. 