Donald Trumps Dangerous War on the Justice Department

Published: June 17, 2023, 12:06 a.m.

b'The New Yorker staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos look at former President Donald Trump\\u2019s arraignment in Miami on thirty-seven federal charges, including obstruction of justice and the willful retention of national-security material. In a speech at his New Jersey golf club, the former President called the charges \\u201cfake and fabricated\\u201d and the prosecution \\u201celection interference\\u201d and \\u201cpolitical persecution.\\u201d With few exceptions, congressional Republicans defended him and attacked the Justice Department and F.B.I.; perhaps more surprisingly, nearly all of his opponents for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination have done the same. As Glasser puts it, \\u201cThere have been so many norms shattered by Donald Trump, sometimes we can fail to notice when yet another is happening. But I feel like this week marked another Rubicon.\\u201d'