The pattern has long been that Trump tests the waters — and then jumps in.
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“The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters,” Trump said in that same rally, “controlled by radical-left scoundrels, lawyers and the media, who tell them what to do — you people, right there” — he pointed at media in the room — “and when to do it. They’re trying to silence me and, more importantly, they are trying to silence you,” he told the cheering audience.As a candidate in 2016 and as president, Trump advocated a Justice Department that was explicitly political.
Hundreds of those who rioted on his behalf at the U.S. Capitol have been criminally charged or convicted, but Trump — who called those rioters to Washington, misled them about the election results and called on them to fight — has faced no punishment, either literal or figurative. His tentative suggestion that the rioters might be pardoned hasThis, too, we’ve seen before, this pattern of Trump testing turbulent waters into which he dives once he realizes it’s safe.
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