President Trump accused former FBI Director Christopher Wray of “inappropriate” behavior during his tenure and said he “would think” the Justice Department is investigating him, NBC News reports.

Said Trump: “I would imagine. I would certainly imagine. I would think they are doing that.”

The Financial Times profiles Stephen Miller.

“Washington’s most powerful unelected bureaucrat slashes immigration and threatens his political enemies.”

“Some congressional Democrats are going so far as to check their own personal finances after the indictment of James Comey,” Axios reports.

“With President Trump calling for Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) to be prosecuted for mortgage fraud, members fear that a loose thread could provide an opening to go after them next.”

Wall Street Journal: “Many of FEMA’s core functions related to preparing for natural disasters and leading recovery efforts after they strike have ground to a halt as the Trump administration redefines the agency.”

“Crucial contracts and grants haven’t been approved, caught up in layers of new bureaucracy. A wave of senior staff departed the agency when Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency offered buyouts, taking decades of experience with them. Around 400 FEMA employees have been detailed to work at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as that agency rapidly expands. And the administration has started dismantling the agency’s disaster-response infrastructure, which was strengthened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.”

“The indictment of the former FBI director James Comey demanded by President Trump sent a shiver of fear through others on the so-called enemies list of the current FBI director Kash Patel. But one other person who might have reason for concern is Kash Patel himself,” the New York Times reports.

“There will, presumably, come a time when the Republican Party is no longer in control. A precedent has now been set for prosecuting a former FBI director disfavored by the current administration for allegedly lying to Congress. Democrats already are accusing Mr. Patel of having lied to Congress in his confirmation hearings when he promised not to engage in political retaliation.”

“Mr. Trump’s campaign to imprison, fire or otherwise punish his political foes and use government power to crack down on free speech he does not like has broken norms that stood for generations. But it has also established new standards for what a president can do that even some conservatives worry may come back to bite them.”

New York Times: “Mr. Vought, who also directed the White House Office of Management and Budget in President Trump’s first term, had spent four years in exile from power. He worked through Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidency from an old rowhouse near the Capitol, where he complained of pigeons infesting his ceiling and coordinated with other Trump loyalists to draw up sweeping, detailed plans for a comeback.”

“He had carefully analyzed mistakes from the first term. And he had laid out steps to achieve the long-sought conservative goal of a president with dramatically expanded authority over the executive branch, including the power to cut off spending, fire employees, control independent agencies and deregulate the economy.”