'Retribution': Election officials shocked as Trump orders more investigations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : " In addition to the memos targeting Krebs and Taylor, Trump this week issued the latest in a series of executive orders targeting law firms, this time naming Susman Godfrey, the law firm that represented Dominion Voting Systems in its successful defamation cases.
52% : Krebs was the first director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, created under the Trump administration, and he was nominated by Trump himself.
50% : "I think [Krebs] said this is the safest election we've ever had, and yet, every day you read in the papers about more and more fraud that's discovered," Trump asserted without evidence in the Oval Office as he signed the memo Wednesday.
49% : That person reached out to an official in another state to share their concerns about what might come next.
29% : The uncertainty around how the orders will be enforced, what precedent they set, and what other election-related directives Trump may issue has heightened alarm for some.
29% : One former election official in a swing state who was targeted by Trump after the 2020 election said seeing the executive order on Krebs triggered immediate anxiety.
26% : President Trump issued a presidential memorandum Wednesday demanding an investigation by the Justice and Homeland Security departments into his former top cybersecurity official, escalating a campaign of retribution aimed at those who contradicted his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
24% : During the 2020 election, as Trump and his allies pushed baseless claims of widespread fraud, CISA launched a rumor control site to debunk falsehoods about voting systems.
17% : Trump has repeatedly made clear he has no intention of letting go of his allegations over the 2020 election.

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