QOTD -- Trump's Obsession

"The story of Mr. Trump’s attempts to defang the investigations has been voluminously covered in the news media, to such a degree that many Americans have lost track of how unusual his behavior is. But fusing the strands reveals an extraordinary story of a president who has attacked the law enforcement apparatus of his own government like no other president in history, and who has turned the effort into an obsession. Mr. Trump has done it with the same tactics he once used in his business empire: demanding fierce loyalty from employees, applying pressure tactics to keep people in line and protecting the brand — himself — at all costs. "--  Mark Mazzetti, Maggie Haberman, Nicholas Fandos and Michael S. Schmidt in The New York Times story concerning Donald "Rump" Trump's (Individual 1) attempts to corruptly influence the Southern District of New York's investigations into the Michael Cohen case (see post below).