Yale historian calls on FBI agents to refuse assisting in Trump schemes (opens in new tab)

“Trump is attempting to undo the republic to retain personal power,” warned Timothy Snyder, distinguished historian of Nazi and Soviet repression, on Tuesday. “No one in DOJ or FBI should be assisting him in this essentially criminal and anti-American undertaking.” Snyder posed this along with a new story from the Guardian in which insiders raise the alarm about the Trump administration’s effort to manipulate elections by placing election deniers in key positions and changing rules to limit a...