purpose. if there is some official purpose to this, what might it be? so i don t think there s an official purpose to this, alex. i don t think it s really a serious letter because as you pointed out, the attorney general is not the right person to meet with the would-be target, you know, would-be defendant donald trump. so it is common for sort of high profile targets to ask for a meeting with the attorney general. when i was at the department of justice there was a person in the deputy attorney general s office who was responsible for writing back vsvp a high priority. the attorney general is not going to meet with you. and it is common especially in white collar cases for prosecutors to let a target know they are a target when an indictment is imminent. the u.s. attorney s manual says that prosecutors are encouraged to send a target letter so that the person can come in and try to convince them not to bring
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trump responded, yeah, but the writing back bad things about me. the former president is denying these allegations from john kelly, a spokesperson for the former president called john kelly today a psycho. that s what the spokesperson said, he s a psycho. that s nice. why do you pick a psycho to be our longest serving chief of staff? but this is a big deal. and potentially criminally big deal for anybody at the irs who might have gone along with this kind of improper pressure. and also, for donald trump, if he in fact ask for the sort of thing to be done. it s a federal crime for anyone, including the president, to request, even indirectly. an audit of anyone. it s against the law to abuse the power of the irs in that way. if trump asked for it, it s illegal. if trump asked for it and the irs then did it, it s illegal