
Former President Donald Trump in a December 2020 file photo. - SAUL LOEB/AFP/TNS/TNS
With Donald Trump’s announcement of his new presidential campaign comes a timely reminder of what kind of a man is asking Americans to put him in charge again: Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, now confirms that Trump, while in office, routinely sought to use and abuse the powers of government agencies against perceived enemies in clearly illegal ways. Among Trump’s demands as president, Kelly says, were that two former FBI leaders he hated should face audits by the Internal Revenue Service. And lo and behold, both did. Kelly’s comments, reported by The New York Times, bring new conte...