Trump wanted vengeance that extended well beyond mean tweets and nasty nicknames. He repeatedly and publicly pressured Jeff Sessions and later Bill Barr to bring criminal charges against his adversaries, including Clinton and James Comey. At one point in the spring of 2018, Trump instructed Don McGahn to direct Sessions to prosecute Clinton and Comey and, if the attorney general refused, said he would do it himself as president. McGahn had to explain that the president had no such power. “You can’t prosecute anybody,” he said. Then he set about compiling an extraordinary memo explaining to
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