WASHINGTON — Over and over again as he mounted his campaign to return to power ahead of last year’s election, President Donald Trump pledged to wield the vast powers of the federal government — including the U.S. military and Justice Department — against his political enemies.

Nine months into his second term, he has followed through on those promises with prosecutions, investigations, demands for arrests and punishment, extracting tens of millions of dollars and personnel changes from media and tech companies , and the deployment of the military and armed federal agents into cities and states run by Democrats. By his accounting, they are just getting started .

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Over and over again as he mounted his campaign to return to power ahead of last year’s

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