By Hailey Gomez
Republican New York Rep. Mike Lawler called out how the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) have been weaponized politically on Sunday on CNN after guest host Kasie Hunt asked whether Kash Patel plans to go after “political enemies.”
President-elect Donald Trump announced his Patel on Saturday as his pick to lead the FBI, writing in a statement that the former Trump administration official plans to lead the agency into a new era. On “State of the Union,” Hunt pressed the Republican lawmaker on whether he had “reservations” about Patel allegedly planning on “going after” Trump’s political enemies, noting that Patel had a “list” of names in his book.
“Look, I don’t think the American people are interested in a revenge tour, but obviously if people did wrong in their official capacities, then that’s something they should be concerned about. But if they didn’t do anything wrong, if they upheld the law, then there shouldn’t be a problem,” Lawler said. “The objective here obviously is to reform the Department of Justice and the FBI and get it back to its mission of going after criminals.”
“Obviously in recent years we’ve seen the FBI and the Department of Justice weaponized in a way that has become completely political. That’s not good for the American people. It’s not good for our system of justice. The lack of confidence that Americans have in the Department of Justice and the FBI is terrible. So obviously we want a system that is reformed, that works for the American people, and that prosecutes criminals. And that should be the objective and the goal of every American. Obviously that’s what my hope is as the Department of Justice moves forward under Pam Bondi and the FBI under Kash Patel.”
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