Former US president Donald Trump began attacking the Justice Department in 2017. Read more at straitstimes.com.
this time for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, his campaign unleashed a fresh round of accusations on Tuesday, claiming that the Justice Department was persecuting him because of political motivations
Back then, he was fixated on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to store classified material and questioned why his opponent in the 2016 election had not been criminally charged. His campaign speeches became peppered with accusations that career civil servants had conspired to undermine his presidency. His rhetoric became more vitriolic, calling those officials “absolute scum” and comparing them to Nazis. His campaign invoked “Nazi Germany” again on Tuesday.
And now, with criminal indictments against him piling up as he seeks to return to the White House, he has further demonised the federal government.
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