Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

But at the same time, Biden was also weighing a pardon for Hunter, whom he feared might soon be targeted by the Trump Justice Department. Not long after Trump left office in 2021, Miller launched a nonprofit called America First Legal; he built on his alliances with like-minded GOP state attorneys general and began thinking about the kinds of lawyers he wanted for a second-term administration. The idea had been brought to the Witkoff sons months earlier by Zachary Folkman and Chase Herro, two entrepreneurs whose reputations troubled some of Trump’s advisors.