“Trump Got a ‘Kick Out of’ the Election Fears He’s Stoked. Inside the DOJ, There’s Some Panic.”

Daily Beast:

To horrified voters, onlookers, and the Democratic opposition, it was another clear instance of the sitting president openly telegraphing his plans to seize power, something some administration officials fear will soon take form within the federal government and among major party organs.

But to Trump, it was… funny as hell.

According to two people familiar with the matterhours after the president stepped away from the cameras, Trump continued following the fallout in the press, including on cable news, and began privately remarking how amusing it was that his answer was making media and liberal heads explode, and also predictably dominating TV coverage.

“He seemed to get a real kick out of it,” one of the sources said, adding that the president seemed to relish making the press, in Trump’s words, “go crazy” over his non-commitment to democratic norms and procedure. “[The president] wasn’t going to be playing by their rules on this just to make them feel comfortable.”…

According to a Justice Department prosecutor, there is internal concernin some department circles that Attorney General William Barr will join post-election lawsuits on behalf of the Trump campaign or its allies. The prosecutor had no inside information about this, and described it instead as an expectation amongst some Justice Department personnel who consider Barr dangerous.

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