department as a personal police force to pursue his critics and political enemies. here s what he said about it in an interview with uni vision last night. i could certainly happen in reverse. it could certainly happen in reverse. what they ve done is they ve released the genie out of the box, you understand that, they ve done something that nobody thought would happen. if i happen to be president and i see somebody who s doing well and beating me very badly i say, go down and indict them, mostly that would be, you know, they would be out of business, they d be out. they d be out of the election. it s all out loud now. so out loud that in a statement, a spokesperson for the trump campaign sought to walk it back and clarify trump s remarks saying the ex-president was simply highlighting the dangerous example president joe biden is setting which only makes sense if you say his conspiracy theory that the work of joe biden and not the end result of years of investigation
altogether. there are so many variables and uncertainties here, and all of that seems to work to the advantage of donald trump. carol, i want to come back to you. i think your body of reporting going back to the first book that you and phil rucker wrote makes clear that everything we see, and you see it much more astutely as a journalist covering it and investigating it, is so amplified by the people who have front row seats. his lack of fitness for office, from the extraordinary reporting you did on the tank briefing at the pentagon, his extraordinary appetite for corruption, for enriching his businesses, the extraordinary exploitation of the secret service and the way you move a president around and where he stays. all of the firsthand witnesses to his lack of fitness, his pension for corruption and the crimes he committed on a daily basis are all the people closest to trump. i wonder how you think that
obama were just slightly muted. they would have been much, much worse if he hadn t had this press conference. i think you ll agree we ve been harshly critical of the president. that pentagon briefing actually changed the tone of the debate. we had commander in chief. because he changed his tone. he changed his tone and sounded like president hollonde saying we ve got to beat them. i know the president doesn t like things like that, but it matters in times like these. he got it. i think the debate was a tad bit more muted. it s hard to go into a tank briefing at the pentagon and not come out feeling em bolded by the strength and intelligence of your commanders. they see operations and hear from their generals and i think