Trump agenda shifts focus to legal troubles and investigations
by Cami Mondeaux, Congressional Reporter |
April 20, 2023 09:17 AM
Former President Donald Trump has shifted the tone of his campaign in recent weeks, focusing much of his messaging on the legal woes and criminal investigations he faces as a way to fire up emotions among his voter base.
Trump has launched attacks against prosecutors and attorneys who are targeting him, especially Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who indicted the former president on 34 criminal charges earlier this month. Trump seized on those charges to rally his base, vowing to open investigations into “Marxist prosecutors” and replacing them with conservatives should he be elected.
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Trump has used the criminal investigations to revive a similar campaign he used in 2016 when he pushed for “draining the swamp” in Washington, D.C. The former president has unveiled a number of ways in which he would do this, including one proposal to give the president unilateral authority to hire and fire federal workers as a way to “clean out” those who are deemed disloyal, according to Axios.
Trump has also called for the defunding of federal agencies such as the Justice Department and the FBI, claiming they have become “weaponized.” Some top Republicans echoed similar sentiments, particularly after Trump’s arraignment in New York that they said was politically motivated.
Additionally, Trump has called for an auditing system that could monitor U.S. intelligence agencies to prevent them from “spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns,” he said last week.
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