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From: S. maltophilia10/31/2025 3:11:50 PM
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All It Took for Trump to Dismantle the Justice Dept.
Oct. 30, 2025

By Carol Leonnig

Ms. Leonnig is the author, with Aaron C. Davis, of the forthcoming book “ Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department.”

The Department of Justice under Donald Trump is still standing. But inside, he and his lieutenants have taken a wrecking ball to this core pillar of our nation’s governing system.

Mr. Trump isn’t solely responsible for this. Through hundreds of interviews that my longtime Washington Post colleague Aaron Davis and I conducted, we learned first hand how a mixture of fear and stubborn bravery, gutter politics and noble intentions ultimately paved the way for the unraveling of the Justice Department we are now witnessing. This decline started in Mr. Trump’s first term but gained momentum in the Biden presidency.

It’s true Mr. Trump started it all when, in his first presidency, he tried to bend this venerable law enforcement agency for his own personal and political gain. Mr. Trump frequently failed in that effort, but, as we learned after two years of reporting, all the while he was quietly succeeding in destabilizing the institution’s foundations — and weakening its resolve with his brand of bare-knuckle attacks. That imperiled the rule of law that has long assured all Americans impartial and fair justice.

Later, the desperate desire of Attorney General Merrick Garland and President Joe Biden to avoid any appearance of partisanship...

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