WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, yesterday joined The Source with Kaitlan Collins on CNN to discuss Democrats’ weaponization of government and the media’s double standard over President Donald Trump’s cabinet selections.
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Hagerty on Trump’s selection of Matt Gaetz and the weaponization of government against President Trump: “President Trump is fully entitled to put forward whomever he wants, particularly when you think about this Department of Justice. I mean, think about what President Trump went through in his first term; the entire ‘Russiagate’ hoax. That was a Democrat funded dossier, a fake dossier that went years of investigation, wasting millions of dollars with [Robert] Mueller. If you think about the, I think it was probably the dirty trick of the century, when Tony Blinken put together this letter with 51 so-called ‘intelligence experts’ that said that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, and then they used the FBI to go out and basically ‘pre-bunk’ it, going to social media outlets like Facebook and saying: ‘This Russian disinformation is going to come forward.’ They used it to suppress this information and affect the outcome of an election. This was a huge misuse of the DOJ when President Trump was in office. Then, if you think about what’s happened since then, the DOJ has been abused to go after President Biden’s number one opponent. You know, think about moms and dads at school board meetings that have been harassed by federal agents because of this DOJ. The DOJ’s failure to enforce the U.S. Code when people are marching on the houses of Supreme Court justices to intimidate them. I mean, this is a highly political partisan DOJ, and I think President Trump is entitled to put in place the change agent that he wants to deal with this.”
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