One thinks of Russian dolls when pondering the Trump administration, for many reasons. First is the obvious Russian connection. Secondly, the Russian dolls represent Trump’s psyche. He is a sick man on the surface, and when you examine his mental illness, you discover another layer beneath, and then another layer beneath that, just like the nesting Matryoshka dolls. Today we caught a vivid glance of Trump’s inner life and it is a seething mess.
Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate Chris Krebs, who ran Trump’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the first term, for the “crime” of acknowledging the reality that Joe Biden won the 2020 election:
“This guy is a wise guy. He said ‘This is the most secure… pic.twitter.com/qXosX4FUSq
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 10, 2025
You would do well to have a dollar for each time somebody in Trump world has told Donald to just.let.it.go. He will not. For reasons which only he knows, he needs to prove to the world that he has been wronged, taken advantage of and cheated — whether it was out of an election that he lost fair and square, or “cheated” because somebody wrote a book about what a lunatic he was. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. People around you are rarely 100% loyal. Trump is the only politician in our history who doesn’t get that basic reality, although he did admit losing to Biden on more than one occasion.
The order signed by Trump labeled Krebs “a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority.” As he signed the order on Wednesday stripping Krebs’ security clearance and opening an investigation into his activities, Trump repeated his false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged.”
“It was proven by so many different ways in so many different forms,” Trump said. “We’re going to find out about this guy too, because this guy is a wise guy.”
Krebs is currently the chief intelligence and public policy officer at cybersecurity company SentinelOne. The order signed by Trump also takes aim at his current colleagues, suspending any security clearances held by individuals at SentinelOne who work with Krebs.
A spokesperson for the company did not immediately respond to request for comment.
That’s Trump’s “case” against Krebs. It will go nowhere. Neither will his vendetta against Miles Taylor.
Taylor authored a high-profile anonymous op-ed in 2018 that criticized Trump and offered a scathing firsthand account of his decision-making. He later authored a book portraying the chaos inside the Trump White House, before revealing his identity and endorsing then-candidate Biden in the days before the 2020 election.
Trump on Wednesday called Taylor a “traitor,” even as he insisted that the former DHS chief of staff played a minimal role in his first administration.
“I barely remember him. Somebody that went out and wrote a book and said all sorts of terrible things that were all lies,” Trump said in the Oval Office Wednesday. “I think he’s guilty of treason.”
Taylor left the Trump administration in 2019. On Wednesday, Taylor said Trump’s decision to target him was a sign the country was headed down “a dark path.”
“I said this would happen,” he posted on X. “Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. America is headed down a dark path. Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man’s point.”
The coffee boy who was guilty of treason. Both of these cases will flop. In fact, what you just saw and heard is probably about as much of the light of day as either of these cases will see. There is no evidence that either Krebs or Taylor did anything wrong. There is only the unstable emotional state of an elderly narcissist who believes he has the power — and the unfettered right — to crush all of his enemies, real or imagined.
If anything, Trump will only make heroes of these two men, even more so than they are already regarded in that light. That is not to say that this matter should be dismissed or held lightly. It is sheer tragedy that we’re even having this conversation. And it is tragedy that the Department of Justice is being weaponized to persecute and prosecute people who are deserving of neither.
That’s the real damage here. And very likely this will end up on the back burner at the DOJ. The only other alternative is if Trump’s minions simply start to make up evidence and kick in doors in the middle of the night, like the Gestapo. I don’t think we’re there or going to get there.
While it is sobering how Trump has gone after big law firms and how he misuses the Department of Justice, which is supposed to be a stand alone entity, he will not succeed in doing anything except look impotent and flailing. Even Pam Bondi doesn’t take Trump’s extreme notions seriously. When asked last week about Trump’s idea of a third term, her reply was “that would be a heavy lift.” Yes, heavy as in completely undoable.
The vendetta against Taylor and Krebs is likely undoable. Or, maybe Trump will really go off the deep end and demand that both Taylor and Krebs be torn apart in the public square, as enemies of the state, like at the end of The Stand. Trump is so far out of it that he may suggest such barbarism. Don’t forget, his birthday is coming up in June and Donald thinks we owe him something nice. Not just tanks going down Pennsylvania Avenue, but something really swell, like a public execution.
He is that far gone mentally. We really do have a madman in office, trying to become our first Mad King.
So I’m here working for the Glorious Bleater in 2025. Really hard, ya know because he’s my fearless leader. So I see this story about how he’s going after people who used to work for him that he used to praise but then disagreed with. I think I have two choices: keep agreeing and save my job, my finances and my life, or disagree with him and quit, even if I don’t go public. Hmm, whadda I do? My friend Big Balls here at Musk HQ says he wants to quit, but is afraid they’ll come after him. Guess we’ll just keep working but my enthusiasm is way down after everything I had in the stock market just disappeared. I bin working twenty two hour days, ya know…
His claims of a stolen election have been disproved many times over.The remedy for Taylor is a civil lawsuit for defamation, not an investigation for treason ( criticizing the president is not treason). As for Kreb his offense seems to.be stating the truth: it was an extremely secure election, there was no rigging,and Dementia Don lost,,fair and square. Donnie is allowed to sue in civil court. He will, of course lose in both cases, but he’s free to file them.