…Never before has a #POTUS issued mass #pardons of govt ofcls for fear a successor would seek to prosecute them out of…vindictiveness.

But the choices of #PamBondi, fmr FL AG & #Trump surrogate, to run #DOJ & #KashPatel, fmr Trump aide & #FarRight provocateur, to be director of the #FBI have put the issue front & center. Patel has vowed to “come after” Trump’s critics & even published a list of ~60 people he considered “members of the executive branch deep state” as the appendix to a 2023 book.