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This should be in every news outlet

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President Donald Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department to persecute his political enemies, say the media. “Trump calls for jailing his perceived opponents in Justice Department speech,” reported NBC. “The president intends to bend the vast powers of federal law enforcement to his will,” wrote the New York Times, “in the pursuit of an anti-crime agenda and, perhaps, vengeance.” The Washington Post said Trump’s speech “violates all norms.” And, according to CNN, Trump “vowed to use [the Justice Department] to target his own enemies.”

However, Trump’s concerns about the weaponization of the Justice Department, or DOJ, to persecute him are valid. The FBI lacked sufficient evidence to spy on Trump’s team, according to an DOJ special prosecutor, and its FISA warrant applications had major errors, according to the DOJ’s independent Inspector General. The DOJ pursued an unprecedented investigation into Trump’s possession of classified documents, including by executing a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022, while Biden’s mishandling of classified documents was treated entirely differently, without such aggressive tactics. And the evidence suggests that the National Archives, DOJ prosecutors, and Biden officials inappropriately coordinated to bring charges against Trump.

Thanks in part to our reporting on the Twitter Files, we know for a fact that the FBI deliberately sought to deceive the American people through an elaborate disinformation campaign regarding the Hunter Biden laptop. The FBI knew the laptop was authentic by December 2019 and nonetheless misled journalists and social media platforms into believing a false conspiracy theory that it was Russian disinformation.

To be clear, we must hold the Trump administration to the same high bar as the Biden administration. We are concerned that the Trump administration has detained and may deport a Palestinian student activist named Mahmoud Khalil for his involvement in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University, and for his alleged support for Hamas. As context for Khalil’s statements and activism, we should keep in mind that the US Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld not just the speech rights of Nazis but also their right to march through neighborhoods of Holocaust survivors.

Because Khalil is here on a green card, the law is not obvious, and may allow the administration to deport him legally, as Yale University’s Jed Rubenfeld notes. But doing so violates the spirit of the First Amendment. And Matt Taibbi has rightly raised concerns about the Trump Administration’s “Catch-and-Deport” that may use AI to monitor social media accounts of migrants who “espouse hateful ideology.”

But these actions, so far, pale against the weaponization of government by the Obama and Biden administrations.

Before the 2016 election, President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan illegally ordered foreign intelligence services to “bump” or “reverse target” Trump aides in an effort to entrap them into suggesting illegal collusion with the Russian government, which contributed to the FBI’s justification for spying on the Trump campaign.

On censorship, the FBI, DHS, the State Department, and other federal agencies coordinated with social media companies to violate the First Amendment. Biden administration officials pressured platforms to take down speech related to Covid and Covid vaccines, including true information about vaccine side effects. DHS outsourced its censorship through “public-private partnerships,” using universities and NGOs to get around legal restrictions. Through the Censorship Industrial Complex, the federal government abused its powers to label political speech as “mis-” “dis-” and “malinformation.”

The January 6 Capitol riot resulted centrally from Nancy Pelosi’s admitted refusal to call out the National Guard. Despite this, the DOJ used the event to charge over 1,500 individuals, many of whom received excessively long sentences for nonviolent offenses. DOJ charged Trump with a conspiracy to prevent the lawful certification of election results – charges based on novel legal interpretations and lacking evidence of specific intent.

The FBI and DOJ’s actions fed into Democrats’ narrative that the riot was a “coup” or an “insurrection.” The evidence suggests the FBI and Secret Service engaged in a cover up around the pipe bomb investigation. What’s more, law enforcement agencies appear to have had dozens of undercover informants and agents present at the Capitol, raising serious questions about how the security failure occurred.

In sharp contrast to its treatment of Trump, the DOJ displayed political favoritism toward Hunter Biden, offering him a sweetheart plea deal in 2023 and then appointing a special prosecutor with ties to Biden from within the DOJ, which is a violation of the DOJ’s own rule to appoint a prosecutor from outside the agency. And the Department never properly investigated the Bidens’ clear influence peddling operationas revealed by Hunter’s laptop

The FBI’s domestic terrorism cases grew by 357 percent from 2013 to 2021, and the main targets of investigations were of Trump supporters, data reviewed by Newsweek showed. As we and others have reported, the FBI also used perverse incentives to encourage agents to open investigations without sufficient predication, engaged in entrapment, targeted Catholics and parents, and punished whistleblowers who drew attention to the agency’s weaponization.

Coinciding with Biden calling Trump and “MAGA Republicans” a “threat to the very soul of this country,” the FBI and DHS singled out Trump’s supporters as a category of “domestic violent extremists.” While the FBI claimed that political views were not criteria for investigations into domestic terrorism, its internal reports and data collection suggested otherwise. The FBI in October 2022 created a subcategory for “anti-government, anti-authority violent extremism” called “AGAAVE-Other” in order to classify Trump’s political supporters as domestic terrorists.

On top of the DOJ’s actions, 34 states made efforts to prevent Trump from running for president through 14th Amendment challenges. Colorado, Maine, and Illinois disqualified him from the primary ballot, in decisions that were later overturned. New York state indicted Trump in 2023 for allegedly falsifying business records, and Georgia indicted him on charges related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election results under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Given how much more the Obama and Biden administrations weaponized the government than Trump has, why are the media claiming the opposite?

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Retired mail carrier here.
There are many carriers with bad attitudes and mental illness!
I can hear the guy in my mind 'These f*kin people, I'm sick of delivering all these mother f*king packages!'.
He's also breaking all of our driving rules. His door is open while he is driving and he is driving backwards. Both are huge no-nos!

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It's gut-wrenching enough watching here. I can't imagine irl.
Nature is beautiful but can be brutal

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Why do we continue to play the Iranian games?
They don't want peace.
They don't care about making their society better.
They only care about killing the Jews and conquering Western Civilization.
They will not stop until all people bow before Allah.
Are you prepared for the coming Caliphate takeover?

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@PeteButtigieg Nobody deserves to get swatted.

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@SenJohnKennedy I bet your the best grandpa!!

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I was 12 when I saw your Dad at Spokes Arena(?) in Va Beach or Norfolk. He helped things fall in place.
I wasn't raised in a believing family, however, my first grade teacher taught children's church after school, and I attended weekly.
When I was 11 we moved across the country to VA
It didn't matter where we lived, I would still jump on the first Sunday school church bus that came by.
I don't remember who took me to Scopes to see him, but I hope it was my mom.
She never encouraged or discouraged my journey, but when I was 10 she gave me a bible!
50+ years later and I still cherish it...

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@TheIronWarden I didn't know you hated the Jews. Thanks for clarifying

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@shaunvlog_ @RonDeSantis Dude!! Our Gov just gave you a high-five!!

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

This is probably one of those most important short videos you can watch about Charlie. And it’s not what you think.

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Wish I was brave enough to share with my daughter. But, there is a grandchild I want to continue to see.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

This has to be one of the bravest videos I have watched on the internet today.

When Charlie Kirk died it hit so many us of really hard. Not only was it a profound loss but the reality was that the left really wants conservatives dead because of political views. They are ok with m*rdering people if you dont conform to their political ideology.

These are dangerous times.

In a way it also (like this man here in the video) "woke" people up. They realized the political propaganda, media manipulation, and the dehumanization occuring by the left and media.

He learned something far more valuable in the death of Charlie Kirk.

This took a lot of guts to post this video online. I commend him.

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@marklevinshow Omg, please tell me this isn't true. Sounds like Bidens stupid comment about Russia invading Ukraine just a little would be ok.

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