Ex-president has made increasingly conspiratorial and authoritarian broadsides against prosecutors pursuing him<\/p>\n
As Donald Trump faces 91 felony counts with four trials slated for 2024, including two tied to his drives to overturn his 2020 election loss, his attacks on prosecutors are increasingly conspiratorial and authoritarian in style and threaten the rule of law, say former justice department officials.<\/p>\n
The former US president\u2019s vitriolic attacks on a special counsel and two state prosecutors as well as some judges claim in part that the charges against Trump amount to \u201celection interference\u201d since he\u2019s seeking the presidency again, and that \u201cpresidential immunity\u201d protects Trump for his multiple actions to subvert Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 victory.<\/p>\n
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