- Before it targeted Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump's DOJ had pursued probes of two officials who investigated Trump, nine Democratic members of Congress, two officials-turned-critics from his first term, a liberal billionaire, a Democrat fundraising group, and more. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...Jan 14, 2026 15:19
- President Trump would occasionally call top DOJ officials during his first term to ask that they open investigations into people who had upset him, a person familiar with those calls told Reuters. "It was always a suggestion, not an order, and we didn't do it."
