David French
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That was weaponizing the DOJ to investigate and prosecute the people who tried to overthrow an American election.
They called that weaponization.
And then here we've been watching play out in front of our eyes, weaponization so blatant
that even grand juries won't indict?
Like, you know, the old saying, you know, a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Well, under Trump, the ham sandwiches are pretty resilient these days.
You're bringing cases so frivolous.
that even grand juries won't indict.
You're talking about bringing cases so frivolous that they have obvious legal flaws that cause them to be tossed out almost immediately.
And then you have Pam Bondi fired, not because she was doing this that is corrupt and incompetent.
She wasn't corrupt and competent.
And so he's now looking for, maybe he's founded in Todd Blanche, the man who can be corrupt and competent at the same time, more dangerous than Pam Bondi.
Because no one should think for a moment that Trump is like,
Well, golly gee, I need to restore the integrity of the DOJ from Pam Bondi.
No, he's thinking, I need the DOJ to be more effectively my weapon.
But he's going to be frustrated, Tim, because guess what?
The Attorney General does not control the outcome of cases.
Juries and judges do.
And so he doesn't control the juries.
He doesn't control the judges, as has been made abundantly obvious throughout the second term, much to his unbelievable frustration, even his own appointed judges say,