Trump accidentally built an ‘army of experts’ ready to take him down: ex-aide

President Donald Trump kicked off his second term with a mass purge of Justice Department officials, but in doing so, created an “army of experts” who could be tapped to investigate him should Democrats seize the opportunity, security expert Miles Taylor argued Monday.In what was described by The Associated Press as a “retribution” campaign, more than a dozen DOJ employees were ousted within days of Trump being sworn into office, all of whom had worked on criminal prosecutions of the president. By March of this year, more than 10,000 federal government lawyers had left, roughly one in five, according to a New York Times analysis, an exodus that Trump called “very good.”Now, with Democrats primed to retake control of the U.S. House, and possibly the Senate, Republicans are “running scared” at the prospect of congressional investigations into alleged corruption committed by both Trump and GOP lawmakers, Taylor wrote in an...