The top priority of Republican lawmakers upon their gaining control of the House should be to root out political motivations from the U.S. justice system, according to former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
Federal law enforcement has been hijacked as a cudgel against political opponents, according to Nunes, who’s now the head of Truth Social, the social media platform owned by former President Donald Trump.
When Republicans gain control of the House come January 2023, they'll be able to use subpoena power to gather information and “expose” improprieties in the justice system.
“They don’t have guns, they don’t have badges. They can’t go and arrest people. But they can issue subpoena after subpoena after subpoena, like we did back in 2017 and ‘18, and expose all this corruption to the American people,” Nunes told Paul Greaney, host of EpochTV’s “Newsmakers.”
Nunes was one of the key lawmakers forcing the disclosure of FBI surveillance of people tied to Trump in 2016 and 2017. He discovered that the FBI obtained a secret spying warrant on Trump aide Carter Page using false allegations of Russian collusion peddled by individuals funded by Trump’s opponent in the 2016 election, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“Having been involved in this and having seen this corruption so close, to me, it’s the No. 1 issue that’s out there ... depoliticizing the justice system in this country,” he said.
“There’s nothing more important than that. Yes, energy independence is important. Yes, the economy is important. Yes, health care is important. All these things are important. But nothing is more important than this criminalization that has occurred in our justice system here in the United States of America.”
Nunes particularly denounced the FBI for raiding Trump’s residence in Florida earlier this year.
“Going through his kids’ closet, going through his wife’s closet. These are scary times,” he said, noting that such actions are “something that you would expect from dictatorships in third-world countries.”
Republican Congress members should launch investigations into such actions, he suggested.
“They have a responsibility to this country to try to get to the bottom of a whole host of these problems within the so-called Deep State,” he said.
“Really what it is, it’s the Department of Justice, working with first the Obama administration, continuing working with the left, and then now with the Biden administration to weaponize the Justice Department and use the intelligence agencies—most importantly, it’s the FBI that they’ve used—to weaponize this process.”
