Trump orders investigation of two first-term administration aides who criticized him

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

04/09/2025 06:28 PM EDT
Updated: 04/09/2025 08:06 PM EDT


President Donald Trump is targeting two former first-term appointees over their criticism of his actions, stripping their security clearances and opening federal probes of their tenures. The directives that Trump signed on Wednesday order the Justice Department to scrutinize Chris Krebs, who ran Trump’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and former senior Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor.

The two critics are the latest to be swept up in Trump’s expansive retribution campaign, where he’s sought to use federal powers in unprecedented ways to punish political opponents, law firms, universities and others that he believes have wronged him.

A president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the traditional wall of separation between the White House and the Justice Department. Under that norm of separation, criminal investigations are supposed to be insulated from political pressure, but Trump has repeatedly scorned the notion of DOJ independence. Making Wednesday’s action even more remarkable, and perhaps unprecedented, is that Trump used the formal power of executive orders to effectively brand two individuals as subjects of criminal investigations.

Krebs, who was the administration’s top cybersecurity official responsible for election security, was fired by Trump via tweet after he had asserted shortly after President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 that “in every case of which we are aware, these claims [of fraud] either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.” He had also authorized a joint statement by CISA and other stakeholder groups that said the election was secure and that there was no indication of votes being changed or stolen, which angered Trump.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/donald-trump-retribution-miles-taylor-00007512

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Retribution is absolutely not a good look to anyone

Trumpflation, retribution, pump-n-dump are 3 major albatrosses for him.

[Walleye]

2. They knew Donald would be on a paranoid, personal vendetta as president.Hoping he would hurt the same people

That they all hate as well for their paranoid reasons

[riversedge]

3. Peter Jennings not able to answer question of what Info did disseminate that was illegal, but......

seems to imply Taylor did. Just my impression.



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Jennings: In the case of Miles Taylor, was working in the government anonymously, obviously disseminating information publicly that he should not have been doing.

Phillip: Like what?

Jennings: Well, I mean, he was anonymously writing pieces for the New York Times and stating publicly that he was trying to undermine the government of the United States

Philip: What did he disseminate that he was legally not allowed to do?

Jennings: Great thing to find out

Phillip: He wrote a book. What’s the allegation? There not allowed to talk about their experiences when they leave government?

Jennigs: I’m saying he used his position to try to undermine the sitting president.

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Had to do a double-take but I think that was "Scott Jennings" vs "Peter Jennings"

(I had to go look up to see if Peter had some son who was in the 45 administration )

[surfered]

5. DOJ doesn't have enough investigators for all the people who criticized Trump or slandered him by saying..

…he lost the election

[oasis]

6. Krebs is in a position to reveal how clear

victory Joe Biden had over Trump.

Bring it on!!!

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Stopping the Truth

Fascist dictators do the things that in a free society are illegal.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. Well, that's perfectly normal.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. What a snowflake

Don't poop your Depends Donny boy.

[the_liberal_grandpa]

10. Is This The Moment American Democracy Finally Broke?- Thom Hartmann

Thom was extremely concerned about this today and wondered why the media was not yelling from the mountain tops about it.
Big violation of the Constitution -which the felon likely uses as toilet paper- and something that could threaten all of us.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-this-the-moment-american-democracy-345