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He considered that a priority because he saw their prosecution as a direct attack on the Big Lie that he had actually won the 2020 election.

And then there are the law firms, some of which were singled out for representing people Trump doesn't like and others who may have employed attorneys he has faced in court, such as Covington & Burling, which assisted Special Counsel Jack Smith, and Perkins Coie, which represented the Dominion Voting Machine Company in its defamation suits against the right wing networks that spread Trump's Big Lie.

“It’s underneath that big lie of ‘doing away with waste, fraud, and abuse’ that they’ve been actually doing away with the agency and its ability to serve the customers,” he explained.

Next, Dahlia Lithwick talks to Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, about another Trumpian inversion of reality: his executive order titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections”, which in fact is not about election integrity, but instead an extension of the Big Lie election theory that could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.

It's just that now that he believes that he's achieved vindication for his Big Lie about the 2020 election and all the criminal and civil investigations from which he escaped, he's demonstrating that he'll use the power of the United States government to punish any offender if they look at him sideways.