Vanity Fair interview may derail prosecution of Trump's enemies: ex-White House staffer
Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor says White House chief of Staff Susie Wiles may have helped build a case against the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).
A federal judge has already dismissed indictments against Comey and James in November, and a Virginia grand jury has declined to return a repeat indictment against James. But Trump’s DOJ could continue to pursue repeat indictments against both, as well as pursue new indictments against even more of President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies.
But Wiles admitted in a bombshell Vanity Fair interview that Trump does have a vengeful streak and is not immune to sending a politicized DOJ after his opponents.
“When I first read this, my immediate reaction was, ‘okay, Susie Wiles is admitting what we have long known about Donald trump, that the guy wears his heartlessness on his sleeve.’ But … she also blew his cover that he wears lawlessness as a badge of honor. I mean, she just gave that up completely and in ways that can materially affect some of the cases that they have against trump's enemies.”
“I mean, she said the quiet part out loud, that these prosecutions are basically vindictive. And I think she'll give people like Letitia James and others some of the legal support they need to make a direct connection between the president's official abuses of power and the actions being taken against them,” Taylor said.
Taylor, added that Wiles reflected one of two personality types that survive a Trump administration.
“There were two kinds of survivors: People who survived to protect the skin on their own necks, and people who survived to protect the United States Constitution,” Taylor said. “And you don't have to love them. But we now see very, very clearly — and in very stark relief — what happens when the only people you have left in government are the ones that want to protect the skin on their own backs. And what you see is the Constitution gets torched.”
“As bad as the first Trump administration was — and believe me, it was a pride swallowing siege every single day inside that thing — this is what people wanted to prevent from happening: The complete lawlessness from top to bottom that we are seeing now in just 11 months of this administration.”
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