| | | Job 1 Day 1 Laws don't matter if they are not equally applied. We'll see what kind of model can be set with the use of the Holman Rule in the next Congress.
Clean House at FBI and DOJ
The former president’s choice to cite the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) as the greatest threat to the United States is no surprise, considering the gauntlet that he and his associates were run through as part of the disinformation campaign that falsely insinuated a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The FBI used a now-debunked, Clinton-funded dossier of anti-Trump claims as part of the rationale to open an investigation of the Trump campaign and obtain surveillance warrants against Carter Page, a former campaign official. That investigation evolved into the special counsel probe by Robert Mueller.
After a highly intrusive and intensive investigation that hampered Trump’s agenda, Mueller filed no charges against the president and prosecuted a handful of Trump associates on process crimes.
Subsequent inquiries into the handling of the FBI investigation exposed a broad pattern of bias and failure that ran all the way up to the top ranks of the bureau.
After Trump left office, the DOJ and FBI opened one of the biggest investigations and prosecution sprees in history against the protesters who attended the Jan. 6, 2021, protests in Washington and entered the U.S. Capitol. At rallies earlier this year, the former president suggested that he would pardon all Jan. 6 prisoners.
“But as I have said before, the gravest threats to our civilization are not from abroad, but from within,” Trump said. “None is greater than the weaponization of the justice system, the FBI, and the DOJ. We must conduct a top-to-bottom overhaul to clean out the festering rot and corruption of Washington, D.C.” |
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