Saagar Enjeti
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The headline is Trump needs a, quote, vicious operator to bring the Justice Department to bring justice back to the Justice Department.
It cites particularly the Biden auto pen scandal, which is really big on the right that like Bondi was not able to like actually get prosecutions in the auto pen scandal, which we know Trump is obsessed with.
And that's kind of a proxy.
It's not it's not just about, you know, oh, none of the auto pen people got locked up or there's been no justice.
It's more saying, like, if you can't
prosecute the auto pen stuff, which the president is obsessed with, then what aren't you doing that should be going... Remember when Tulsi Gabbard went and... I was the new media seat at this briefing.
It just happened that way, where she comes up and talks about this investigation, sprawling investigation into Obama and John Brennan that the White House and the Justice Department is looking into.
Well,
Conservatives are getting impatient and saying, where are the actual charges?
Like, why have no charges been brought?
So I think that's where Trump probably is personally just obsessed with the auto pens scandal, the auto pen prosecutions.
But they're looking for more heads to roll, basically.
Yeah.
Comey, well, it's a whole... That's such a mess.
It was... I don't want to say necessarily thin, but there was a whole thing with the statute of limitations.
And it was, if I'm remembering the details correctly, essentially like a perjury charge.
So, yeah, that's maybe also a good example of a prosecution being bungled by Trump's perspective, because that was a hot mess.
But I don't know to what extent that was Pam Bondi's fault.
I mean, obviously, she's the head of the Justice Department.
But it just...