Just because the election is over doesn’t mean that the refrain of “You can’t hate the media enough” doesn’t still hold true. They can’t stop themselves from giving the American public ample reasons to hate them, and it’s only going to get worse as their sworn enemy, Donald Trump, makes his way back to the White House.
You might as well head over to Polymarket and make a bet that the left’s next political cudgel they’ll try to wield against Trump will be this: He’s weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political enemies! If this sounds familiar, that’s because Joe Biden’s very own DOJ has spent the last four years engaging in this exact kind of political warfare against Donald Trump.
But, as with all things, it’s okay if the Democrats do it. See also: ending the filibuster and packing the Supreme Court.
As RedState’s Bob Hoge reported Monday morning, the media and their Democrat overlords are in an uproar over the Trump transition team’s apparently brusque approach to ridding the executive branch of federal government careerists who won’t implement the new administration’s agenda.
In short, employees at the DOJ, in particular, are running scared.
Mark Paoletta, a conservative lawyer working in Trump’s transition team, threw down the gauntlet in a social Monday media post Monday, bluntly telling Department of Justice lawyers they needed to get with the program or find another job (or face consequences). “If these career DOJ employees won’t implement President Trump’s program in good faith, they should leave,” he warned in a lengthy post on X.
NBC News’ “Fusion” Ken Dilanian, who is best known for being one of corporate media’s biggest teller of lies about the Russia collusion hoax, is joining a chorus of leftist voices who fear that Donald Trump will simply follow the precedent set by Joe Biden and use the DOJ for his political purposes. It’s almost too silly to contemplate that the left would go down this desperate route, but then again, they did run Kamala Harris as their presidential candidate.
Dilanian appeared on MSNBC to discuss alleged tension, as reported by The New York Times, between the “normies” and the “crazies” on the Trump transition team. One such team member, Mike Davis, whom Dilanian called a “bomb-throwing provocateur,” was singled out as likely being a “crazy” for suggesting that people like Letitia James and Jack Smith should be prosecuted for their actions against Donald Trump.
It’s worth noting Davis’ precise comment about James, as it demonstrates his refreshingly bombastic style:
“Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General; I dare you, I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term because, listen here, sweetheart, we’re not messing around this time, and we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights. I promise you that, so think long and hard before you want to violate President Trump’s constitutional rights or any other American’s constitutional rights. It’s not going to happen again.”
The other person who has the Ken Dilanians of the world shaking in their boots is Mark Paoletta, who served in the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term. Paoletta, according to Fusion Ken, “is justifying the idea that the president can order the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute specific cases.” Just like the Biden DOJ did, but there’s no mention of that.
NBC’s @KenDilanianNBC: If the Trump Admin prosecutes NY AG @TishJames or Jack Smith, “that would violate five decades of norms post-Watergate, which said that the DoJ should be independent from the president” pic.twitter.com/YkarYdSiqW
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 11, 2024
Here’s what Dilanian had to say about the idea that Trump’s eventual Attorney General pick, which could be Davis or Paoletta, taking action against those who broke laws in order to perpetrate the witch hunts against Trump:
The thing about that is that it would violate five decades of norms, post-Watergate, which said that the Justice Department should be independent from the president. That the president should never say “go investigate that person.” These people are suggesting that Donald Trump should be able to do that with his Justice Department.
And, as a legal matter, they’re right. We’re talking about norms here, not laws, these post-Watergate strictures. So, it’s raising a lot of questions and getting a lot of people very nervous.
In the words of Townhall’s Katie Pavlich, “Oh how rich, they want to talk about norms.” Rich, indeed, as Ken Dilanian not only stood silent in the face of Joe Biden breaking “norm” after “norm” in order to weaponize his DOJ against a former president, Dilanian himself is guilty of perpetuating proven lies in order to affect the political process.
A lot of people got away with a lot of crimes these past four years, and they have every reason to fear the long arm of the law, in the words of Mike Davis, putting their “a$$es in prison.”
