Pic Of The Moment: Trump Says It's Unfair That Democrats Aren't Investigating Obama's Book Deal

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5. In all seriousness, this might be Cheeto's way of floating a Lawfare trial balloon.

Lawfare, for anyone unfamiliar with the term, is basically a regime's weaponizing the judiciary against critics and opponents.

Strategically placed prosecutors and judges who, either through political affinity or sheer bribery (and sometimes extortion), will railroad opponents at the president's whim.

You're seeing this in a number of right-wing and otherwise authoritarian regimes around the world - notably in Argentina against former President Cristina Kirchner and her ex-officials; and Brazil, to remove former President Dilma Rousseff, and to later jail former President Lula da Silva (who would be president today but for that).

In the U.S. we saw this at work under Bush through his lackey Alberto Gonzáles, who as many will recall was given to using U.S. attorneys to harass Democrats.

Trump himself has already openly said he'd like to go this route. And there's no one he'd rather start with, than President Obama.