#political-retaliation

#political-retaliation

As the federal government shutdown drags on, the Trump administration has doubled down on a tactic of dubious legality that it has been pursuing since January: cancelling federal funding for already congressionally approved projects in blue cities and states. Back in the summer, the administration pulled $4 billion from the California high speed rail project. It followed up a month later by withdrawing another $175 million from the project.

Rather than restoring academic freedom, the Trump administration has tried to force private universities into accepting commissars to oversee whom they admit and what they teach. President Donald Trump decried the many civil and criminal cases against him and his supporters. Instead of ending lawfare, the president is publicly jawboning his attorney general into prosecuting his political antagonists, such as former FBI Director James Comey and New York State Attorney General Letitia James, even when the underlying evidence seems weak.

Revenge, retribution, accountability who cares? said Watters in response to the argument that President Donald Trump is using these charges as personal revenge against Comey for the FBI's investigation into potential ties between Russia and his 2016 presidential campaign. It's happening and I'm enjoying it. It is an eye for an eye, and I hope we win, continued Watters.

Democrats are blasting President Donald Trump's decision to yank former Vice President Kamala Harris's extended Secret Service protection as vindictive and an act of revenge. The former vice president lost her statutory six months of protection in July, but former President Joe Biden had quietly signed an order granting her another year of coverage, according to exclusive reporting from CNN.

"This is the first step towards accountability... the trauma, the separation from my wife, the birth of my first child that I was forced to miss."

Media Matters faces an ongoing campaign of retribution for exercising its First Amendment rights. For the third time, Media Matters must ask this Court to halt this 'government campaign of retaliation.'