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“disloyalty, brutally attacked them. “He tries to be charming and likable and then he turns on you if he thinks you’re doing something against him, even if it’s the right thing, like recusal,” Hunt said. “To him, it’s only the right thing if it helps him and helps his image.”
― David Rohde, Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy

“Watching the Trump campaign’s attacks on the election results, I now see what might have happened if, rather than nip and tuck the Trump agenda, responsible Justice Department attorneys had collectively—ethically, lawfully—refused to participate in President Trump’s systematic attacks on our democracy from the beginning,” she wrote. “The attacks would have failed.”
― David Rohde, Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy

“Nothing can more weaken the quality of life, or more imperil the realization of the goals we all hold dear,” Garland said, “than our failure to make clear by words and deed that our law is not the instrument of partisan purpose.”
― David Rohde, Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy