Analysis: Cuomo probe will add to fears Trump is politicizing justice

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump has declared national emergencies to unlock vast executive powers.
46% : Laura Brett/Sipa USA The ramifications are not limited to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where Trump has installed luminaries of his MAGA movement and his personal lawyers on whom he can depend for total loyalty.
44% : Suggestions that Trump is leveraging the legal system for political gain need to be seen against the backdrop of a broader constitutional challenge.
44% : But the building legal storm is renewing scrutiny on the decision of the Justice Department under former Attorney General Merrick Garland to go after Trump.
42% : And Trump has ordered investigations into several of his first-term aides turned critics.
41% : Some of these suggestions are more serious than others, and there's always a sense that Trump is creating extreme content to fire up his base.
34% : "This is lawfare and election interference plain and simple -- something President Trump and his top Department of Justice officials say they are against," he said in a statement.
34% : Trump has meanwhile issued a series of demands for action.
30% : Brettschneider added, "The rule of law turns out to not be that stable." Trump justifies his overhaul of the Department of Justice and the FBI by arguing that he was politically victimized, especially with regard to his four criminal indictments after leaving office at the end of this first term.
30% : "There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked," Trump said in that Justice Department speech, bemoaning his treatment by "really bad people" and "thugs." But the last four months mean his opponents may be justified in turning his warning back against him.
26% : Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.
25% : Critics warn that while Trump claims he's de-weaponizing law enforcement, he's weaponizing it as never before. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a press conference at Carpenter's Hall in Lower Manhattan after officially announcing that he is running for New York City Mayor on March 2, 2025, in New York.
23% : But Trump has threatened multiple times to use the law to avenge what he regards as his own past persecution.
23% : "We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government," Trump said during an address to Justice Department staff in March.
20% : James won a civil case against Trump and his firm last year alleging fraudulent business practices.
15% : Trump also reposted a social media post to his followers that suggested that former President Barack Obama should face a military tribunal.
14% : The Secret Service is investigating James Comey, the fired former FBI director and Trump foe, after he posted a picture of shells spelling out "86 47" -- a social media code implying Trump should be removed from the presidency.
8% : The testimony covered a period in which Cuomo frequently clashed with Trump, whose chaotic handling of the health emergency contributed to his 2020 election defeat.

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