In a 2024 campaign long marked by Donald Trump’s threats of revenge and retribution, the period after he was convicted was bound to get ugly quickly. Sure enough, scores of Trump allies are now threatening to prosecute Democrats and throw them in jail.
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A popular idea is to investigate the investigators — basically to turn up the heat on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) and others who have indicted Trump and his allies. Among those pushing this is Mike Davis, a former Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer close to Trump, who wants state and local Republican prosecutors to lead the probes, he told the New York Times.
But the limits of this approach are evident. Trump Attorney General William P. Barr dispatched special counsel John Durham to launch a probe of the Russia investigation; it turned out to be a years-long bust.
Davis suggested Wednesday that such probes could focus on the theory that the Biden administration has been pulling the strings in these state prosecutions. He pointed to Matthew Colangelo, a former Biden Justice Department official who worked on the Manhattan case, and two meetings that former Fulton County prosecutor Nathan Wade appears to have had with the Biden White House in 2022.
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