Andy McCarthy Rips Trump Weaponizing DOJ in National Review
By: Joe DePaolo (Mediaite)
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Andy McCarthy — a conservative legal analyst who serves as a Fox News contributor — denounced President Donald Trump and his new Attorney General Pam Bondi for weaponizing the Department of Justice.
In a scathing column for the right-leaning National Review on Sunday, McCarthy denounced the "Weaponization Working Group" established by Bondi. McCarthy believes that group practices the very weaponization it is supposedly trying to root out.
"Under the guise of 'Restoring the Integrity and Credibility of the Department of Justice,' the AG is implementing the Biden DOJ model of conviction first and trial later — if ever," McCarthy wrote. "Standing convicted are Trump's principal prosecutorial nemeses — Biden DOJ special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney General Letitia James — and therefore guilty by association are any DOJ and FBI personnel who aided and abetted them. In what crimes, we're not told — only that Bondi will be "provid[ing] quarterly reports to the White House regarding the progress of the review."
McCarthy argued President Joe Biden's DOJ was politicized — but that Trump also engaged in "serious misconduct."
"It does not follow that, because the previous Justice Department was politicized, all of the people it targeted were pure as the driven snow," McCarthy wrote. "Trump engaged in serious misconduct, regardless of whether it was actionable misconduct."
Of Bondi, McCarthy wrote, "If she is just going to spout Trump's grievances without putting the Justice Department's response to egregious behavior in context, then she's engaging in partisan law enforcement, exactly the noxious practice she claims to be rooting out."
The conservative legal analyst added, "The weaponization directive is doing politics, not removing politics from law enforcement. Plainly, the 'Weaponization Working Group' exists to settle the president's scores and rewrite dark chapters of his history — while providing him with quarterly assurances of Attorney General Bondi's progress on what is now the Justice Department's core mission."
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Few men who are Republicans are brave enough to speak the truth or stand up for actual values. Glad he has the common sense to speak truth to power if only Republicans would listen.
Weaponizing the DOJ?
Obama and Brandon did that- didn't hear a peep from the left about that. And this TDS driven mighty mental midget only mentions it in passing- no denunciation at all.
Screaming when no one has been even charged yet. Let us know when the charges start rolling in against Trump's political enemies.
Until then this is just more of the same shit we have heard for the last nine years and counting from the TDS driven.
You obviously don't know this guys history.
Glad to see you've come around on Biden's DOJ:
The predictable deflection.
No matter what Trump does, his supporters either deny it or deflect.
Seems Trump could even take unnecessary actions that will result in more inflation rather than lowering prices as he promised and his supporters would keep on defending him.
In fact we can test this hypothesis ... given that Trump has indeed taken those actions with his gratuitous public threats of tariffs and his execution of tariffs.
I’ve been told repeatedly that McCarthy is a maga apologist hack…