If someone would like to point out an example of something even remotely similar to this a president has done in the last, oh, hundred years I’d love to hear it.
There was a Monty Python routine in which a couple of Wise Guys visited the Commanding Officer of a British Army base and leaned on him. “Nice tanks you got here, it would be a shame if some of them got broken.”
I think that’s a fairly good precedent for the Trump Presidency.
If you are right, they have nothing to worry about. But they surely look worried about what is going to come out of the pending reports. They are very very busy preempting their release with fantasy smears.