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Donald Trump Trump ally Stephen Miller at heart of FBI agent purge, new book reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/stephen-miller-trump-fbi-agents-injusticeMiller urged firings of those who had investigated president to satisfy Trump’s desire for revenge, Injustice authors write
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, was the driving force behind a purge of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who had investigated Donald Trump, a new book reveals.
Miller trampled the independence of the FBI by demanding firings that would satisfy the US president’s desire for retribution, journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis write in Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department.
“Stephen Miller is breathing down my neck,” Emil Bove, then Trump’s chief enforcer at the justice department, confided in FBI leaders, according to the book, a copy of which was obtained by the Guardian.
After his first White House term, Trump faced federal criminal investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. His election victory last year effectively ended both prosecutions and left him spoiling for revenge.
In the second week of his second presidency he had already directed the removal of top leaders of the justice department (DoJ), the authors write, and “his lieutenants at the White House and DoJ dramatically turned up the heat at the FBI”.
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Miller trampled the independence of the FBI by demanding firings that would satisfy the US president’s desire for retribution, journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis write in Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department.
“Stephen Miller is breathing down my neck,” Emil Bove, then Trump’s chief enforcer at the justice department, confided in FBI leaders, according to the book, a copy of which was obtained by the Guardian.
After his first White House term, Trump faced federal criminal investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. His election victory last year effectively ended both prosecutions and left him spoiling for revenge.
In the second week of his second presidency he had already directed the removal of top leaders of the justice department (DoJ), the authors write, and “his lieutenants at the White House and DoJ dramatically turned up the heat at the FBI”.
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