On President Donald Trump’s first day back in office, he signed an executive order entitled ‘Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,’ responding to the Biden administration’s lawfare against him. Democrats still harshly criticize that E.O.
On Nov. 15, 2022, former President Donald Trump announced that he again was running for president. On Nov. 18, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate and prosecute Trump, a historical first because prosecuting a former president and the leading presidential candidate of the major opposition political party shattered two centuries of legal norms and tradition.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, recently said that Biden’s ‘Justice Department’s infected with political decision-making, while its leaders refuse to acknowledge that reality.’
Trump consistently and correctly criticized the Biden administration’s politicization and weaponization of government. He must now fundamentally choose whether to allow the Democrats’ wrongful lawfare against him to naturally end.
Unfortunately, the Biden administration’s last-minute machinations, such as politicized special counsel reports and Biden’s blanket pardons for his family, friends and political allies, signal that Democrats likely will not stop lawfare and weaponization until they are turned against them.
Biden’s statement accompanying his pardons showed that he knew lawfare was wrong: ‘baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety and financial security of targeted individuals and their families… being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage their reputations and finances.’
