President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in Aberdeen, Scotland, on Monday. On the visit, Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, presented Mr. Trump with gifts including a document dating from 1853 that registered the marriage of Mr. Trump’s maternal great-grandparents.
Mr. Trump brought much of this on himself by encouraging dark views of the government that he derides as the “deep state,” views that prove hard to dispel now that the supposed deep state answers to him.
The administration’s claims are overblown, but newly declassified information provides some messy details about a January 2017 intelligence assessment of Moscow’s election interference.
A January 2017 assessment said that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had ordered a multifaceted information operation targeting the U.S. election in 2016.
The move demonstrates President Trump’s determination to deploy the powers of federal law enforcement to pursue a campaign of retribution against those who once sought to hold him accountable.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to use a so-called strike force is the latest in a succession of the Justice Department’s efforts to repurpose existing entities to suit the president’s political dictates.
Mr. Trump at a reception at the White House on Tuesday. He has tried to distract from the outcry over his administration’s handling of the Epstein files.
After focusing his second-term ire on other individuals and institutions, President Trump is again seeking prosecution of his most prominent rivals — this time with aides more inclined to carry out his wishes.
President Trump on Tuesday resurfaced his grievances against former President Barack Obama and others he associated with what he considers a long campaign of persecution.
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has contended that the intelligence work in 2016 was not only flawed but also amounted to a conspiracy against President Trump.
An extended digression by President Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday was a stark example of his campaign of retribution against an ever-growing list of enemies.
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