Durham Report shows GOP can’t back down against government weaponization.

Don’t Let the FBI Get Away with Corruption

When Special Counsel John Durham released his explosive 306-page report about the Russian-collusion hoax on Monday, he merely confirmed what many of us already knew: the Obama Administration colluded with Democrats and the corporate media and weaponized the FBI to take down former President Donald Trump before he was even elected to office.

For years, the government, sworn to protect the people, created a partisan scheme to take down an American citizen because he threatened the deep state’s near-total grip on power. Durham’s report was critical because it exposed the years of corruption and “confirmation bias” fueling the “Russia Russia Russia” lies.

Uncovering and punishing, however, are two different things, and Durham, despite bringing charges against two known hoaxers, was mostly successful at establishing that the government levied a massive abuse of power against its citizens.

The GOP Must Take Action

Now the ball is in the GOP’s court. Ever since they took back the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm election, Republicans have honed in on the corruption that plagues Democrats like President Joe Biden, the Department of Justice, and intelligence agencies like the FBI.

So far, Republican-led investigations are making good progress. Yet, at the end of the day, committee hearings, letter-writing campaigns, and press conferences are empty threats to people like former FBI Director James Comey, who repeatedly refuses to answer questions about his role in the Russia collusion hoax.

The GOP knows corruption at the DOJ and FBI is deeply rooted and, as evidenced by the FBI’s reported retaliation campaign against whistleblowers, ongoing. This is exactly why Republicans must leverage the momentum they gained from Durham to punish those who weaponized and continue to weaponize themselves against the American people.

Don’t Retreat in the Battle for American Democracy

As the 2024 election cycle rapidly approaches, it’s likely tempting for Republicans to slow their quest for truth and justice among the swampy ranks of the bureaucracy. Any balking in the face of the copious evidence Durham provided, however, is inexcusable and no better than the GOP establishment’s perfidious reaction at the beginning of this years-long scandal.

Backing down from the Russia collusion hoax now just because Durham’s chapter is closed would signal an unforgivable retreat in the battle for American democracy. Any Republican that chooses the path that the establishment chose in 2017 at the beginning of one of the biggest smears in American history is, at best, a coward, at worst, an accomplice to the Democrats’ radical institutional takeover.

Hold the FBI Accountable

If Republicans want to hold the federal government accountable for waging war against its own citizens, they must act now or risk losing the chance forever.

Chuck Grassley, a Republican senator, said in a statement on Monday, “The FBI allowed itself to be hijacked and weaponized by political actors to target a political rival during a presidential election and administration. Restoring its integrity, if that’s even possible, will take humility, transparency and accountability.”

The FBI has the opportunity to, as Grassley put it, “start today” by responding to Republicans’ demands that the FBI hand over information about its lack of investigation into Biden’s family corruption.

It’s a fair question since the Biden administration’s FBI and DOJ have remained unresponsive to congressional requests and inquiries related to the Biden family business. Yet, it’s a question that will presumably remain unanswered by the FBI without any promise of recourse.

Don’t Be Scared to Make an Example of the FBI

In recent months, Republicans repeatedly flirted with the notion of defunding the FBI. Every time that threat rises to prominence, however, it is quietly put to bed.

Why is the GOP scared to make an example of a clearly corrupt and partisan agency? The FBI is clearly not sorry for wasting taxpayer dollars on a blatantly partisan scheme targeting the political opponents of Democrats.

If Republicans want to hold the federal government accountable for waging war against its own citizens, they must act now or risk losing the chance forever.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.