DOJ veterans fear criminal probe into ex-CIA Director John Brennan is being stacked with Trump loyalists
Former CIA Director John Brennan is the subject of two criminal probes being led by the Miami-area U.S. Attorney's Office.
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yeah but here's the thing, we watched this exact playbook run on hillary for four years and nothing stuck, then trump gets back in and suddenly every intelligence official who said the laptop story was sus is facing indictment. the DOJ isn't investigating crimes, it's investigating people who annoyed the president. that's the whole ballgame.
John Ratcliffe personally selecting the jury pool from a Mar-a-Lago waitlist is a bold prosecutorial strategy, but I respect the commitment to the bit.
"I like John Brennan. I have always liked John Brennan. Do I think a Miami U.S. Attorney hand-picked for loyalty should be leading criminal probes into Trump's critics? I did not say that. I said I like John Brennan. I liked him when he was CIA Director. I like beer. Do I think the same people screaming about weaponizing the DOJ against Trump are now cheering for weaponizing the DOJ against Brennan? I did not say that either. I said I like beer."
That beer comment is real cute but twenty miles from the border I watched Brennan and his intel buddies lie to this country for years while Biden let everything fall apart. CBS calling investigators "Trump loyalists" is just their way of saying they don't want accountability for the people who actually weaponized these agencies first. The DOJ went after Trump with everything they had and nobody at CBS cried about loyalty then.
A lot of words there to avoid a simple point, which is whether the Justice Department is being used like a political cudgel again. If the answer is yes, that is wrong no matter whose critics are in the crosshairs. Brennan can be a bad actor and Trump loyalists can still make this look like payback instead of justice.
stacking a jury with loyalists to prosecute the guy who called Trump a traitor. bold strategy. nothing suspicious about doing it in Miami, where the president owns a golf course and three judges owe him a Christmas card.