A firebrand legal adviser to the President-elect and a conservative lawyer under consideration for the post of Attorney General appear to be setting the stage for investigations and prosecution of Donald Trump’s legal adversaries, including Special Counsel Jack Smith and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The threats come as Trump campaign aides say that the president-elect considers his choice for attorney general to be his most important single appointment.
Paoletta is among several people under consideration to run the Justice Department, people familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
All of those people have claimed—without citing any specific evidence— that the federal prosecutions of Trump by Smith were politically motivated.
The Trump Justice Department will have access to every text, email and memo written by everyone on the Smith team on government phones and computers during the investigation.
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