For all the bellyaching about President Donald J. Trump “weaponizing” the Justice Department against political enemies, the Democrats are preparing to do exactly that if they regain power.
With a crowded field of candidates lining up to compete for the 2028 nomination, Democratic hopefuls will be looking to outdo each other with vows to mete out political retribution against the president and other top officials to appeal to their rabidly vengeful base.
Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris is now on record that if she is the chosen one and manages to get elected, she will target the Trump Justice Department officials.
The former vice president appeared on disgraced ex-CNN host Don Lemon’s podcast and previewed what she seems to think is the winning formula that will punch her ticket back to the White House.
Don Lemon tells Kamala he thinks people in the Trump DOJ should “face justice” for going after “political rivals.”
Kamala agrees: “I absolutely believe that.”
Lemon: “If you are president in 2028, will you make sure that there’s accountability?”
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“I’m not a politician, but I think that the people who deserve to be prosecuted or whatever it is, for misusing the Justice Department and abusing, I believe, American citizens and American politicians…political rivals or whatever, I think that they should face some sort of Justice,” Lemon said.
“Oh, I absolutely believe that,” Harris responded. “And I believe that there should be – that there should be accountability,” adding, “especially for people in the highest roles of power and authority.”
“Those who abuse their power and authority should be held accountable, and there should be consequence,” she added.
Lemon then popped the question. “If you are president, let’s just say in 2028 you are elected, will you make sure there is accountability?”
“Oh, I believe firmly in accountability,” Harris answered, slightly chuckling. “Yes.”
It is a brazen example of hypocrisy coming from the second-highest-ranking member of an administration that wrote the playbook on weaponizing the DOJ, which was unleashed against Trump and his associates during their time in power.
And it won’t only be the DOJ either; Harris will unleash the federal law enforcement apparatus on Trump, who swept every single swing state against her in 2024, as a matter of petty revenge.
Earlier this week, Harris weighed in on fellow 2028 hopeful and current California Governor Gavin Newsom’s overblown claim that Trump had put him and his wife on a “hit list” and that he was under investigation by the Justice Department.
Former VP Kamala Harris on Trump: “I am not surprised that he may be using the Department of Justice to go after a political enemy in the current governor of California.” pic.twitter.com/ZokqM6hQGA
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“He told us most of what we would know would happen, including that he would go after his political enemies using the Department of Justice,” she said during a panel discussion at the Austrian World Summit.
“I am not surprised that he may be using the Department of Justice to go after a political enemy in the current governor of California,” the ex-veep added.
While Newsom has been the frontrunner for 2028, Harris evidently has her sights set on the nomination, although, unlike 2024, this time it isn’t just going to be handed to her on a silver platter without a primary process.
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