{"id":2379812,"date":"2024-12-13T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-fret-about-trump-because-he-can-turn-lawfare-on-them\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:13:45","slug":"dems-fret-about-trump-because-he-can-turn-lawfare-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-fret-about-trump-because-he-can-turn-lawfare-on-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Fret About Trump Because He Can Turn Lawfare On Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-fret-about-trump-because-he-can-turn-lawfare-on-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2379812&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent MSNBC\u2062 interview, former President Bill Clinton expressed concerns about President-elect Donald Trump possibly misusing the Department\u2062 of Justice (DOJ) against political opponents, likening\u200c this threat to a pattern of \u2064behavior influenced by his former advisor Roy Cohn. Clinton criticized TrumpS tactics, \u2064suggesting \u200bthey align with\u2062 historical\u2062 strategies of denial and attack. this statement comes \u200camid discussions about Trump&#8217;s numerous legal challenges, which he and\u200d his supporters argue are\u2063 politically motivated. Several media outlets, including NPR and The Washington Post,\u2062 have raised alarms regarding the idea of Trump &#8220;weaponizing&#8221; the FBI if re-elected, \u2064despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oral-argument-in-j6-scotus-case-lays-bare-dojs-partisan-lawfare\/\" title=\"Analysis of Oral Argument in J6 Supreme Court Case Reveals DOJ&#039;s Partisan Tactics\">ongoing legal scrutiny<\/a> and accusations against him, including various prosecutions\u2064 in \u200cNew York and Florida related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-de-blasio-considering-run-for-n-y-gov\/\" title=\"NYC Mayor De Blasio considering run for N.Y. Gov.\">alleged criminal activities<\/a> during and after his presidency. Critics argue that the unprecedented\u200c legal actions taken against Trump by Democratic leadership have rendered discussions about his future potential actions\u2062 as authoritarian somewhat hypocritical.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump is apparently a threat to democracy because he has the power to use the Department of Justice (DOJ) the way Democrats did against him.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview released with MSNBC this week, former President Bill Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/12\/09\/bill_clinton_hunter_bidens_crimes_pale_in_comparison_to_a_criminal_justice_system_which_punishes_political_enemies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complained<\/a> Hunter Biden&rsquo;s crimes &ldquo;pales in comparison with a deliberate use of the criminal justice system to punish your political enemies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lest anyone might think Clinton was referring to President Joe Biden&rsquo;s weaponization of the Justice Department, the 42nd president condemned Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This whole thing has been thrown off for several years now because of the dominance of what I call Roy Cohn politics. Roy Cohn was Sen. Joe McCarthy&rsquo;s main adviser. Then he came back, and he was Donald Trump&rsquo;s father&rsquo;s main political adviser, and then President Trump,&rdquo; Clinton said. &ldquo;And Roy Cohn said, no matter what happens, always deny everything, always attack, and always accuse other people of doing what you&rsquo;re doing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Either Clinton was speaking with absolutely zero self-awareness or was offering a textbook example of outright projection after Democrats launched a crusade of civil and criminal litigation to bankrupt and imprison their top challenger with nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/us\/trump-investigations-charges-indictments.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100<\/a> state and federal charges across multiple jurisdictions. <\/p>\n<p>Clinton isn&rsquo;t the only one fretting about Trump&rsquo;s return to the Oval Office as a supposed authoritarian who happened to be elected for a second time. National Public Radio (NPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=trump+authoritarian+use+justice+department+to+go+after+enemies+after%3A2024-11-11&amp;sca_esv=0906209586f9cb0f&amp;source=hp&amp;ei=xVZcZ8LgFaut0PEP9rmliQg&amp;iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZ1xk1dWdVfT9vC2RywGtxaf9WDItsRaJ&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiC15PYi6WKAxWrFjQIHfZcKYEQ4dUDCBo&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=trump+authoritarian+use+justice+department+to+go+after+enemies+after%3A2024-11-11&amp;gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Ik90cnVtcCBhdXRob3JpdGFyaWFuIHVzZSBqdXN0aWNlIGRlcGFydG1lbnQgdG8gZ28gYWZ0ZXIgZW5lbWllcyBhZnRlcjoyMDI0LTExLTExSNltUABY3WpwAXgAkAEAmAHJAaABxiqqAQczMC4yMy4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIMoALcC8ICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIREC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwHCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICDhAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGMcBwgILEC4YgAQY0QMYxwHCAgUQABiABMICCBAuGIAEGLEDwgIOEAAYgAQYsQMYgwEYigXCAgUQLhiABMICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAgQQABgDwgILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwHCAgcQABiABBgKmAMAkgcFMy44LjGgB_Zw&amp;sclient=gws-wiz\">published<\/a> this headline last week: &ldquo;Could the FBI be weaponized under Trump?&rdquo; Was anyone at NPR paying attention under Biden? Here&rsquo;s another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/12\/12\/trump-retribution-targeting-political-enemies-polling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> from The Washington Post: &ldquo;Many Republicans are okay with Trump ignoring the law to target enemies.&rdquo; The legacy media is reporting as if the Democrats&rsquo; unprecedented lawfare campaigns never happened.<\/p>\n<p>But let&rsquo;s go through Trump&rsquo;s alleged crimes. In New York, a re-opened investigation from a Manhattan prosecutor received <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/07\/exclusive-house-judiciary-expands-investigation-into-manhattan-da-over-trump-indictment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal assistance<\/a> to pursue charges <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/31\/guilty-trump-verdict-will-keep-good-people-from-running-for-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previously declined<\/a> by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Southern District of New York&rsquo;s U.S. attorney&rsquo;s office. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/03\/operation-deplorable-a-whos-who-of-the-get-trump-crusade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alvin Bragg<\/a>, the district attorney who campaigned on a platform to prosecute Trump, ultimately captured a conviction on 34 charges for falsely characterizing payments to a lawyer as legal expenses.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida, Trump was prosecuted for the alleged mishandling of classified documents after top secret records were found throughout the former president&rsquo;s private Mar-a-Lago residence. FBI stormtroopers raided the property in 2022 under sweeping warrants that granted officials <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/12\/breaking-fbi-raid-warrant-demanded-seizure-of-literally-any-record-trump-ever-saw-during-4-year-presidential-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">authority <\/a>to confiscate any and all documents Trump may have come in contact with as president. The case was dropped this summer after a federal judge in Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/15\/judge-in-docs-case-throws-out-dojs-lawfare-against-trump-rules-jack-smiths-appointment-unconstitutional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled<\/a>&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">special counsel&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s appointment was unconstitutional. Federal prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/08\/prosecutors-decline-to-charge-elderly-biden-over-poor-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dropped<\/a> a similar case against Biden earlier this year after Special Counsel Robert Hur reported the president had a &ldquo;poor memory.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, Trump faces criminal charges related to objections over the 2020 election. Trump is being prosecuted by local officials plagued in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/20\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-motions-to-disqualify-get-trump-prosecutor-fani-willis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scandal<\/a> because he made the same challenges to the election outcome which Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/13\/second-j6-hearing-criminalizes-republicans-for-election-objections-after-democrats-made-them-for-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made<\/a> for decades. In fact, Democrats objected to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/fact-check-did-democrats-object-more-states-2016-republicans-2020-1561407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more states<\/a>&nbsp;in the 2016 election than Republicans did in 2020, but none <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scandal-plagued-illinois-democrat-resigns-from-office\/\" title=\"Scandal-Plagued Illinois Democrat Resigns from Office\">faced criminal charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, D.C., federal prosecutors indicted Trump on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, wherein a horde of demonstrators descended on a joint session of Congress before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-calls-for-everyone-under-15-to-take-pictures-at-white-house-atlanta-braves-event\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Calls for \u201cEveryone Under 15\u201d to Take Pictures at White House Atlanta Braves Event\">president finished speaking<\/a> at the White House. While Trump urged supporters to make their voices heard &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/10\/966396848\/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">peacefully<\/a>,&rdquo; prosecutors still charged the president with inciting the riot, and only <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/25\/jack-smiths-end-of-lawfare-charges-against-trump-proves-it-was-a-political-witch-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dropped<\/a> their case following his re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Trump might escape jail time and additional <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/16\/trump-fined-350-million-in-democrats-latest-gambit-to-rig-the-2024-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fines<\/a> beyond the civil cases brought against him by partisan prosecutors in New York, others within Trump&rsquo;s orbit did not. Former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon both <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/29\/bannon-released-from-prison-warns-of-impending-election-steal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spent<\/a> four months in prison this year for refusing to comply with the Democrats&rsquo; Soviet-style inquisition run by the since-disbanded Jan. 6 Committee. <\/p>\n<p>Trump was asked last weekend on NBC about whether he would seek &ldquo;retribution&rdquo; against political opponents who weaponized the state to put him in jail.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not looking to go back into the past,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/08\/us-news\/trump-cools-on-taking-revenge-against-foes-im-not-going-to-instruct-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;Retribution will be through success.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of &#8220;Fat and Unhappy: How &#8216;Body Positivity&#8217; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself).&#8221; He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>. Buy &#8220;Fat and Unhappy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sz7EDAJI1c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump poses a democracy threat by potentially misusing the DOJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2379813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MSNBC.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3933,16727,5894,4158,3634],"class_list":["post-2379812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-dems","tag-lawfare","tag-politics","tag-strategy","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MSNBC.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379816,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379812\/revisions\/2379816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}