The single most consequential staffing fact in this file: the Justice Department that would investigate the president is led by attorneys who personally defended him. Plus the Cabinet departures, the narrowest FBI confirmation in history, and a Supreme Court justice's son at Treasury.
Click any row. Appointment to office is not misconduct — what is documented here is the specific conflict each placement creates.
A $1.776 billion settlement between the president and his own government was approved by a department run by his former personal defence attorneys. That is not an inference — Todd Blanche, Emil Bove and Stanley Woodward all previously represented him personally.
Blanche signed the memo creating the fund, told Congress the fund was dead, then declined to say so under penalty of perjury when a federal judge offered to end the case in exchange for exactly that. The memo was never rescinded.
Meanwhile the FBI is led by someone confirmed 51–49 who had publicly promoted claims about a 'deep state,' four women left the Cabinet in three months, and a Supreme Court justice's son works at Treasury while the Court is positioned to hear Treasury cases.