Who knew we had such tools codified in the law just waiting for the right king to use them? Someone has really done the advance research for our very stable genius.

Not since Nixon it appears.

That frequent contact is in and of itself a major departure from how the White House and DOJ have interacted since the Ford Administration, when in the wake of Watergate, strict guidelines were established for contact between the Executive Office of the President and the Justice Department.

A series of investigations into some of President Donald Trump’s political adversaries run by “Stop the Steal” organizer turned Justice Department “special attorney” Edward Martin is being conducted outside the normal DOJ chain of command with regular input from the president himself, The Independent has learned.

The GOP activist attorney, who simultaneously serves as the U.S. Pardon Attorney, head of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “Weaponization Working Group,” and as a “Special Attorney for Mortgage Fraud,” has become the tip of the spear in the president’s campaign of retribution with the aid of fellow administration official Bill Pulte.

Pulte, the 37-year-old ex-private equity executive and Trump campaign donor turned federal mortgage regulator, has been lobbing attacks against prominent Democrats,

His appointment as a “Special Attorney” by Bondi under a rarely-used portion of the U.S. Code gives him the authority “to conduct any kind of legal proceeding which United States Attorneys are authorized by law to conduct,” and, according to sources, Martin is taking advantage of that authority by operating outside the supervision of the department’s No. 2 official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Martin, whose status permits him to prosecute criminal cases in any of the 94 judicial districts that make up the federal court system, is leading investigations and presenting evidence to grand jurors with an eye towards bringing a case — any case — against his targets.

Administration officials told The Independent that Deputy Attorney General Blanche, a former top prosecutor in the Southern District of New York who represented President Trump in multiple criminal cases during his time out of office, has complained to top administration figures about Martin taking point in these matters, and bypassing the department’s existing infrastructure, while going beyond simply looking at whether his targets committed mortgage fraud by probing possible criminal tax violations.

Blanche is understood to have offered Martin access to staff and resources to aid him, because the failure to obtain indictments against James, Schiff or Cook would be a significant embarrassment for the department. At the same time, he has expressed fears that Martin, whose experience as a prosecutor is limited to a four-month stint as an interim U.S. Attorney in Washington, is simply not up to the task.

Yet despite going so far as to make his case in person at the White House while meeting with top brass last Friday, Blanche’s concerns have largely fallen on deaf ears, the official said, because Trump sees Martin as a “fighter” who will do what so many “respectable” DOJ appointees failed to do during his first term — prosecute Democrats.

To that end, Trump has been bypassing Blanche — and occasionally reaching past Attorney General Pam Bondi — by regularly telephoning Martin for updates on his work, leaving Blanche “frustrated and annoyed,” according to one source familiar with the matter.

The Independent understands that these calls can come as often as three to four times per week, with Trump urging Martin to move forward.