Trump’s threats to ‘go after’ opponents will subvert rule of law, experts warn

Trump's escalating legal threats against lawyers, donors and others raise concern as Project 2025 seeks to curtail DoJ

Donald Trump's sweeping threats if he wins the presidency again to name a special prosecutor to go after" Joe Biden and take legal action against other foes would subvert the rule of law in America and take the country towards authoritarianism, former justice department officials and scholars have warned.

Trump's escalating legal threats have targeted corrupt election officials" lawyers, donors and others he falsely deems out to steal November's presidential election, and have popped up variously on his Truth Social platform, at campaign events and at an elite police group he addressed this month in North Carolina.