In the latest round of Democrats exposing what they are really up to and plan on doing, however much they might howl about the supposed authoritarianism of President Donald Trump, House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) revealed that the Democrats plan on intentionally using the DOJ against Trump’s allies if they retake power.
Such is what Rep. Jeffries said during a September 22 appearance on CNN’s “The Situation Room”. In the interview, he went ballistic over the news that President Donald Trump had pushed AG Pam Bondi into action, and was, as part of that, replacing a RINO US Attorney with someone a bit more reliable and on the same page as the administration.
The show’s host, Wolf Blitzer, asked the House Minority Leader, “On another sensitive legal issue, Leader Jeffries, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was pushed out of his job. Several reports saying that that was for failing to charge the New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud. What does that tell you about the independence of the U.S. Justice Department right now? And is there a role for House Democrats here?”
Responding, Speaker Jeffries noted that the House Democrats will continue pushing back against Trump and vowed to use the DOJ as a bludgeon against Republicans at the first available opportunity. He began, “There’s absolutely a role for House Democrats. And I expect that that effort will continue to be led by the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin.”
Continuing, the woke representative insisted that those involved in this matter will be “held accountable” by future lawfare. He snapped, “We are demanding that all information connected to this sordid affair be preserved so that once the investigation is fully underway, led by us and we’ll see what the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee decide to do, that we can secure all of the documents and present them to the American people and ensure that folks are held accountable for their behavior.”
He added, menacingly, that the statute of limitations will not be up when Trump is out of office in 2029, saying, in a clear threat to Trump allies “You know, one thing to understand, as people who are flirting with the Trump administration or doing the bidding of the Trump administration or engaging in the pay-to-play schemes of the Trump administration, the statute of limitations is five years. Donald Trump and this toxic administration will be long gone, but there will still be accountability to be had. And that process, of course, begins now.”
Then, in a clear indication that he thinks the DOJ is filled with Democratic loyalists who won’t hesitate to help him and his party out in future years, Jeffries said, “But it will not be complete until perhaps there is an independent Department of Justice, certainly an independent House of Representatives in Democratic hands. The Department of Justice is one of the great institutions in law enforcement in the history of this country.”
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Concluding by attacking the Supreme Court and indicating it might face his wrath as well, Jeffries said, “And Donald Trump and these extremists have been destroying its integrity. And we should also blame the conservative justices on the Supreme Court for all of the things that we see happening because they basically gave this President blanket presidential immunity in a country where the framers of the Constitution said we don’t want a king. But they’ve effectively enabled Donald Trump at times to behave just like a king. And that needs to be revisited as well. The Supreme Court, shame on them for what they’ve done to this country in unleashing this out-of-control behavior. That needs to be reversed.”
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