Jack Goldsmith
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 10 Sep
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President Trump himself, when he was asked earlier this year, I think by the New York Times, and I'm going to paraphrase again, why are you more forward-leaning in your foreign adventures with your family's companies?
And he basically said, because I learned that no one cared.
And I think that was the lesson.
The lawsuits against him failed.
Congress didn't do anything about it.
It was all out in the open and nothing happened.
I think that there is truth in the fact that aspects of the government were weaponized against Donald Trump before he came to office.
I've talked about this before.
If I could just get a definition of weaponization on the table, weaponization as I see it is the use of discretionary executive power to use the tools of government to try to harm or destroy your enemy.
Now, the problem with that definition is it kind of depends on what the intent is.
The Democrats thought that they were just Trump had acted illegally and they were just getting accountability.
And therefore, it wasn't weaponization because they had a good intent and the Trump administration saw them having a bad intent.
the conglomeration of lawsuits against him, including not just the New York lawsuits, not just the federal lawsuits, not just the Georgia lawsuits, the 14th Amendment effort to get him removed from office and taken off the ballot.
Elements of it, because of the unusual nature of some of it and how some of it was conducted, definitely seemed like weaponization.
And I would also add to that some elements of Crossfire Hurricane, the investigation into the Russia matter,
So I do think that the Trump administration, and I could go on on this score.
There's more things.
I do think that they had grounds for grievance about weaponization of government.
The last thing I'll point out is it was a very serious thing for the Biden administration to
to prosecute a former president for the first time in American history who was also the president's opponent in the election.
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