On Wednesday afternoon, we learned that President Trump’s Department of Justice has begun investigating former FBI director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan. As The New York Times reported, Trump’s Secret Service had Comey “followed by law enforcement authorities in unmarked cars and street clothes and tracked the location of his cellphone the day after he posted an image on social media in May that President Trump’s allies said amounted to a threat to assassinate the president.”

I can’t say I’m surprised. And, honestly, you shouldn’t be either.

One of the lessons Donald Trump clearly took from his first term was that the Department of Justice didn’t always do his bidding. And he very much wanted it to.

The president was often outraged that his first Attorney General—Jeff Sessions—was investigating anything that Trump hadn’t specifically asked him to look into.

Here’s Trump in 2018 complaining about Sessions not doing his bidding:

Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the........

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