Tom RIDGE, hardly a rhetorical firebrand, laced into Trump in intvu w ⁦@smerconish⁩. ”The department was established to protect America from the ever-present threat of global terrorism. It was not established to be the president’s personal militia.” https://t.co/DSIhjsQZT2

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 21, 2020