Top FDA drug regulator resigns after officials probe ‘serious concerns’ about his conduct | PBS News

The lawsuit, brought by Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, alleges that Tidmarsh used his FDA position to pursue a "longstanding personal vendetta" against the chair of the company's board of directors, Kevin Tang...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/top-fda-drug-regulator-resigns-after-officials-probe-serious-concerns-about-his-conduct 

 

Here Are the Republicans Kash Patel Wants to Target – Mother Jones

When Barr was Trump's attorney general, he prevented Trump from appointing Patel deputy director of the FBI, noting Patel was vastly unqualified for the position. "Over my dead body," Barr told the White House at the time. Barr's presence on Patel's run-down of Deep State wrongdoers—like Ryan's inclusion— suggests it might also function as a list of his own personal vendettas…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/here-are-the-republicans-kash-patel-wants-to-target/

If Trump wins, he’ll turn the justice department into a vendetta machine

If there weren't already enough reason to fear a second Trump presidency, this would be it. 

Public trust in our governing institutions has already sunk to a new low – due in large part to Trump's first term, his subsequent big lie that the 2020 election was "stolen", and now his second big lie that Biden is orchestrating a "witch-hunt" against him. 

Even if Biden is re-elected, it will be necessary to deal with the damage Trump and his Republican enablers have wrought…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/27/trump-justice-department-vendetta-machine-robert-reich