This week, the legacy media finally caught up to what I’ve been writing about for months: the use of federal government power to intimidate, investigate and prosecute political opponents. Slowly but surely, the Trump administration has begun executing its abuse of criminal law to target its perceived enemies. And it seems that people are finally starting to notice.

However, most of the coverage fails to connect the various dots from one outrage to another. Drawing a parallel between the mistreatment of a U.S. senator and the comptroller of New York City is easy — but it misses several other instances of government abuse dating back to late January.

So, for this week, I want to start by offering a more complete timeline of what has happened so far...

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