President Donald Trump on Thursday suspended security clearances for Perkins Coie and ordered investigations of at least 15 law firms over diversity programs.
The directive targets Perkins Coie employees because the firm in 2016, while working for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, “hired Fusion GPS, which then manufactured a false ‘dossier’ designed to steal an election,” according to an executive order signed by Trump.
“It’s weaponization,” Trump said in the Oval Office, “you could say weaponization against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again.”
Perkins Coie in a statement called the order “patently unlawful, and we ...