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Former prosecutor Barbara McQuade knows mob tactics, and she says she sees the mob in countless aspects of President Donald Trump\u2019s practices.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom 2010 to 2017 she served as the US attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. She has prosecuted high-profile corruption cases, including that of the former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, as well as the \u2018underwear bomber\u2019 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and the Volkswagen emissions scandal,\u201d reports the Guardian. \u201cNow she turns her prosecutorial gaze on the occupant of the White House and makes the case that Trump governs like a mob boss.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe uses his power to try to control others, especially would-be critics,\u201d said McQuade, speaking to the Guardian while sitting outside Comet Ping Pong, a Washington pizza restaurant targeted in 2016 on the baseless conspiracy theory that it was harboring children as part of a Democratic-led child sex-trafficking ring. \u201cHe uses any leverage he can get, inflicting pain to try to coerce them to come to the table to negotiate their own punishment. He\u2019s done it with law firms and the media and universities and even foreign allies with tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

She cites the president\u2019s recent machinations in Michigan politics as example: \u201cHe has threatened to hold up the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge between Detroit and Canada and there\u2019s an owner of a private span next to it who made a million-dollar donation to the MAGA SuperPac at around the same time.”<\/p>\n

McQuade, the author of The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government,<\/em> also points to Trump\u2019s pardons for January 6 rioters and political donors, his acceptance of a $400 million plane from Qatar and his lockstep with tech billionaires seeking favorable merger regulations in violation of the constitutional emoluments clause.<\/p>\n

Trump uses both carrots and sticks to extort compliance, she said, and he get furious when the carrots don\u2019t deliver.<\/p>\n

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When he pardoned the Texas congressman Henry Cuellar, who was indicted on corruption and money laundering charges, Trump was outraged to learn that Cuellar still intended to run for re-election as a Democrat. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I do something for you, you are now beholden to me. I control you. I own you,\u201d McQuade told the Guardian.<\/p>\n

But his sticks \u201care equally insidious,\u201d she said, referring to how Trump issued executive orders to punish elite law firms that had previously employed attorneys who investigated him, including Robert Mueller or Andrew Weissmann. His EOs barred these firms\u2019 security clearances and access to federal courthouses. And many of them surrendered to Trump\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

But mobsters don\u2019t have to deliver low inflation and affordable gas \u2014 and on these issues Trump is floundering. So his authoritarian \u201chouse of cards\u201d will eventually collapse, as voters realize that he can\u2019t hold up to his promises.<\/p>\n

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