2025-11-30 17:43:36
The Trump administration has sought to punish its enemies through mortgage fraud investigations overseen by the Federal Housing Finance Agency
and through criminal probes that Trump personally demanded the attorney general pursue.
Enlisting the Pentagon in this effort poses a unique threat to American democracy, according to historians, retired military officers and legal experts.
Long-standing taboos against using the armed forces to further a president’s political machi…

