If Trump wins, he’ll turn the justice department into a vendetta machine | Robert Reich

A second Trump presidency would kiss nonpartisan criminal justice goodbye. We must protect the attorney general's independence

Last week Donald Trump said that, if re-elected, he'd appoint a real special prosecutor" to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family".

In other words, if Trump is re-elected, you can kiss nonpartisan criminal justice goodbye.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com