Nothing exposes the bankruptcy of our political establishment quite like watching them redefine basic concepts of justice in real time. The same voices that spent years shrieking about threats to democracy and “no one is above the law” are now horrified by the prospect of accountability for those who actually abused their power and broke the law. Why? Because it’s a Republican administration bringing that accountability.
Case in point: When a reporter questioned White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about President Trump’s frustrations with the DOJ’s slow pace in holding corrupt officials accountable, he suggested there was some kind of contradiction.
“I want to point to something that the president said during his inaugural address, ‘Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.' He will not allow that to happen. Is the president going back on his promise?” The reporter asked.
Leavitt set the record straight: “It is not weaponizing the Department of Justice to demand accountability for those who weaponized the Department of Justice.” Exactly. There is a difference between political revenge and enforcing the law against those who shredded public trust by turning the DOJ into a political hit squad.
Trump isn’t threatening to transform the DOJ into a partisan weapon. It already was one, courtesy of Joe Biden and his flunkies. Biden’s attorney general presided over one of the most brazen abuses of power in modern history: indicting the sitting president’s political opponent in the middle of an election year. This was the very definition of election interference, something Democrats swore was the greatest threat to democracy — until they were the ones doing it. Where was the media’s outrage then?
Leavitt reminded everyone that “nobody knows what [a weaponized Department of Justice] looks like more than President Trump,” because he lived it. He was slandered, spied upon, dragged through hoaxes, and indicted by prosecutors working hand-in-glove with his political rivals.
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And the very people responsible for that corruption — Adam Schiff, James Comey, and Letitia James — are the same people Trump now demands be held accountable. Schiff and James both face credible accusations of mortgage fraud. Comey appears to have lied to Congress. These are not victims of Trump’s “grudge;" they are corrupt operators who abused their office to undermine the democratic process.
Leavitt called out the media for their gaslighting, for spinning Trump’s calls for justice as nothing more than reckless vengeance. In reality, Trump is reflecting what millions of voters demanded when they returned him to office with a mandate. As Leavitt put it, “I think the president is reaffirmed in those frustrations and his hope for accountability by the millions and millions of people who reelected him to this office with a mandate to demand accountability.” Those voters weren’t asking him to look the other way while Democrats perpetuate corruption. They were asking him to root it out.
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— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 22, 2025
"It is NOT "weaponizing the Department of Justice" to demand accountability for those WHO WEAPONIZED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE!
Nobody knows what that looks like more than President Trump. We are not going to tolerate this gaslighting."
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Here’s the bottom line: The left doesn’t want equal justice. They want one set of rules for themselves and another for their opponents. Trump’s stand against this two-tiered system isn’t a betrayal of his inaugural promise — it’s the fulfillment of it. Deweaponizing the DOJ doesn’t mean Democrats walk free while they commit crimes with impunity. It means exactly the opposite. And now, for the first time in a long time, the phrase “no one is above the law” might finally start meaning what it should.
