Trump Weaponized The Justice Department To Take Down His Enemies

With new reporting last week confirming that the Department of Justice during the Trump administration spied on Democratic members of Congress, there is no other conclusion to reach than Trump used the DOJ to attack those he felt were threats to him. This is also confirmed by his use of the DOJ to go after reporters, as well. Farron Cousins explains what happened and why serious investigations are needed.

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Several weeks ago, it was revealed that Donald Trump was using the justice department to try to get information on a reporter from CNN. And that report actually came out after we had other reports of the DOJ during the Trump years, trying to get information on other reporters. Well, then I guess we fast forward a couple of weeks to last week, late last week, where it was revealed that the department of justice, while Donald Trump was president under both Jeff sessions and bill

BARR, the DOJ was spying mean trying to get cell phone metadata on democratic

Members of Congress, specifically Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell. But it didn't just stop at Schiff and Swalwell.

It was their families, it was her spouses, their kids, anybody else they talked to on the phone, their friends, they spied on all of these individuals, democratic

Members of Congress and their families, CNN reporter reporters from other outlets. What happened during the Trump years. And it's clear at this point that had happened throughout the entirety of the Trump administration starting in the very early days. The same time Trump was saying Obama spied on me. He was spying on other people.

Trump was so it was clearly deflection, but

He weaponized the U S department of justice to go after his elliptical

Enemies.

You would be naive to think that that is not what happened during the four years of this administration, especially given all of the information that is available to us. Now, now, right now, we do have Democrats in Congress, obviously, including Adam Schiff of Nancy Pelosi, calling for investigations. They want answers into this. And honestly, even though I no big fan of Pelosi

Or, they're correct, regardless how we feel

About them politically, this is the kind of thing that needs to be investigated. This is the kind of thing that we need answers about. And this is the kind of thing that hopefully will lead the prosecutions for the politicization of the us department of justice. And let's be clear. Trump is not the first president to do this. I'm willing to bet, you know, all of them have done this, but this has to stop. The gun mint cannot continue to function and people certainly aren't going to have any faith in it. If we know that each party is just using it to keep tabs on their enemy and to preserve their own power, this country is 100%

Well on its way to

Becoming a banana Republic. If we're not already

There, I, this is the kind

Of stuff that we find out, oh, you know, so-and-so dictator and this Latin America country, or in this Eastern European country, they were doing this to their enemies. Yeah. We hear about those stories. We become grossed out and, you know, disgusted here in the United States. We're so much better than that. No, we're

Not. That's who we are. That's what we are. And Trump

Took that program and put it on steroids,

But we need investigations. We need answers as to who all this man was spying on. And

Until we get those answers until we get those, you know, uh, possible prosecutions, there's no way to have faith in the system at all.

And that's the real problem. If people don't have

Faith in the system, the system cannot

Survive. And Donald Trump destroyed everyone's faith in the government itself. And if we want to restore it, get busy on those investigations and start getting a summary. That's hers.