Trump was "cutting deals with the Justice Department to keep his ass out of trouble" his entire adult life, pre-presidency, notes @lincolnsbible.bsky.social. "And that meant handing over the gangsters he was laundering money for." Clips by @chattjazz.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/c/PoliticsWi...
It's been a working assumption of mine that the kid glove treatment Trump received from the FBI and DOJ is that he was essentially an informant for them for years and burrowed in institutionally like a tick. No one is that lucky. The handling of the Steele Dossier is consistent with that view.