Matt Gaetz was met with roars of delight last year when he vowed to bring the FBI and the Department of Justice “to heel”. “We either get this government back on our side or we defund, and get rid, abolish ... every last one of them,” he told an audience of right-wing activists.

The firebrand congressman from Florida is, by next year, poised to be running the very same department he was ready to wipe out, bringing a mandate from Donald Trump to tame a legal apparatus that they both claim was “weaponised” against them.

Financial Times