During an interview on Univision, journalist Enrique Acevedo asked Trump if he would weaponize the FBI and the DoJ on his opponents in the same way he claims federal law enforcement agencies have been weaponized against him -- proving his own cognitive impairment, because he's already done countless times. Why does the media never call him out on it? THIS IS NOT NEWS. Via the Washingon Post:
“Yeah. If they do this, and they’ve already done it, but if they follow through on this, yeah, it could certainly happen in reverse,” Trump told Acevedo, according to excerpts of the interview.
“What they’ve done is they’ve released the genie out of the box,” the former president continued, adding, “You know, when you’re president and you’ve done a good job and you’re popular, you don’t go after them so you can win an election.”
“They have done something that allows the next party … if I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say, ‘Go down and indict them.’ They’d be out of business. They’d be out of the election,” Trump continued.
As Marcy Wheeler points out, this went on throughout Trump's administration. :
