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Charging someone with felonies over a five-year-old congressional statement—aimed at a person identified by Trump as a major political foe—highlights how thoroughly Trump has broken the post-Watergate expectation that the Justice Department would act independently of the White House on criminal matters

He has gone beyond abandoning that tradition and instead bent the Justice Department to his will: dismissing prosecutors and FBI agents his supporters dislike, quashing politically inconvenient cases, and pressing for criminal investigations of his adversaries