Laura Barron-Lopez:
The lawyers and legal scholars that I spoke to said that these actions are unprecedented, that they have never seen a present use power in the way that President Trump is using to go after his perceived enemies.
He’s essentially stripping traditional power — traditional separation between the Justice Department and his office of the presidency. Now, this is part of a larger pattern of punishing any person or entity that the president considers an enemy.
Now, we — this is not an exhaustive list that we’re about to show, but these are some of the people who President Trump has either revoked security clearances for or security protections for. That includes former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley, Trump’s former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and many others.
Now, the president has also targeted law firms that either legally challenged his policies or represented political opponents or cooperated with some of the prosecutions that were carried out against the president. Now, this week, the president added to his target list the firm Susman Godfrey and targeting their security clearances.
They represented Dominion Voting Systems in their lawsuit against FOX News. And people will remember that FOX News had to settle $787 million to Dominion Voting Systems.
