Wall Street Journal Flags Donald Trump Risk ‘Turning Out To Be Worse Than We Imagined’
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The newspaper's conservative editorial board highlighted an "ominous turn."
The Wall Street Journal argued it’s becoming “increasingly clear that vengeance is a large part, maybe the largest part” of how President Donald Trump “will define success in his second term.”
Trump’s campaign for vengeance “took an ominous turn” with the FBI raid of his former national security adviser-turned-critic John Bolton’s home on Friday, said the newspaper’s conservative editorial board, which has criticized the president on multiple issues since his return to office.
“It’s hard to see the raid as anything other than vindictive,” said the Journal, which suggested Trump may view the “process itself to be the punishment even if there is ultimately no criminal charge” or hope the raid will silence Bolton.
“The real offender here is a President who seems to think he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas,” the board concluded. “We said this was one of the risks of a second Trump term, and it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined.”
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