Nixon was a lawyer, but he fell into this language and culture of revenge, something John Mitchell was only too happy to oblige. Trump is not a lawyer, so his natural propensities to seek revenge are not subject to the same professional rules as lawyers. However, when the current AG chimes in, we are all fucked. The entire point of the law is to prevent endless cycles of revenge and retribution by turning things over to an independent arbiter for conflict resolution. We seem to witnessing the death of the rule of law and it is happening quite out in the open.
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