Speaking during a press conference on Wednesday, October 15, the same press event in which he and FBI Director Kash Patel explained the success of the FBI’s massive crackdown on crime as part of “Operation Summer Heat,” President Donald Trump sounded off when commenting on the fact of “weaponization” of the DOJ against political enemies.
As background, the claim that Trump has weaponized the federal law enforcement apparatus have been spewing from the left ever since he started going after a collection of Deep State hacks who allegedly broke the law, such as James Comey and John Bolton. The Trump Administration has insisted, in contrast, that it is merely enforcing the law against Deep State bureaucrats who were never before held accountable, and that really it was Biden who weaponized the DOJ against him.
Such came up during the Wednesday press conference, with the president being asked: “I would like to understand the full extent to which the Biden-Harris Justice Department weaponized federal law enforcement. What do you think the committee will find out?”
Going nuclear in response, the president noted that he had been the one targeted by it, and it was the “worst weaponization” of the DOJ ever, saying, “I think it was the worst weaponization against a political opponent in the history of the world, let alone this country . . . I’m not. I’m the one that had to suffer through it and ultimately win.”
Adding to that, the president noted that former Special Counsel Jack Smith needs to be held accountable as well, saying, “But what they did was criminal. Deranged Jack Smith, in my opinion, is a criminal. And I noticed his interviewer was, I think that was Weisman. And I hope they look into Weisman too. Weisman is a bad guy, and he had somebody in LISA who was his puppet, worked in the office, really, as the top person, and I think that she should be looked at very strongly. There was tremendous criminal activity.”
The president then noted that while he has succeeded in closing the border, and now needs also to tackle the political crime issue, saying, “And I’ve said it from the beginning, fair elections and border, and we need also fair press, because if you don’t have fair press, it’s very tough. And we’ve got the strongest border of anybody. Nobody has a border. We have a border where the numbers just came out. Again, you saw zero people came in illegally. Now we do take people into our country legally, but zero people. But you know, you’re talking about a different subject. You’re talking about political crime. They have committed massive political crime.”
Continuing in his comments on that a bit later, the president said, “This is about something else, but I hope they’re looking at political crime, because there’s never been so much political crime against a political opponent as what I had to go through. They raided my house in Florida. It was an illegal raid. I have a lawsuit that was doing very well, and when I became president, I said, I’m sort of suing myself. I don’t know what ,how do you settle the lawsuit? I’ll say, give me X dollars, right? And I don’t know what to do with the lawsuit. It’s a great lawsuit, and now I won. It sort of looks bad. I’m suing myself, right?”
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Further building on that point, he said, “So I don’t know but, but that was a lawsuit that was a very strong, very powerful they raided illegally my house in Florida, Mar-a-Lago. They went through the draws of my young son, they went through all of the cabinets and drawers of the first lady she walked in, she said, Wow, what happened? Because she’s very meticulous, and this wasn’t so meticulous as she looked into the drawers and she saw everything a mess. It’s a disorder they did against a person that just got out of office.”
Contrasting his treatment with how the corrupt members of the Biden administration and family were treated, saying, “And then you look at these corrupt people. You look at Hunter Biden. You look at the signature, as an example, the auto pen. I just signed so many different things, an admiral, a four-star general, that I’m signing them left and right the commissions.”
Then, commenting on the shutdown somewhat later, he said, slamming Schumer, “And as far as the shutdown is concerned, this is a Democrat Schumer shutdown, and he’s trying to do it to get relevance back into the party, because he’s a loser. I’ve known him all his life. He’s always been sort of a loser, but an intelligent one, but I think he’s losing IQ points with time. I think that happens. I hope it hasn’t happened with me. I know if it did, you guys will let me know about it very quickly.”
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