DOJ Screws the Pooch

by Rick Wilson - Today

As expected.

Let’s call it what it is: a pathetic, tawdry political lawfare circus. The Trump Justice Department tried to transform a 90-second video reminding U.S. service members they are sworn to the Constitution, not Donald Trump, into a criminal conspiracy.

Judge Franzia Pirro told a grand jury to indict six lawmakers who simply said troops must refuse illegal orders, a fundamental principle of the military found in the - wait for it - Uniform Code of Military Justice.

The grand jury, thank God, refused to buy this nonsense.

This isn’t justice. It’s revenge porn masquerading as legal proceedings. It’s weaponizing “law enforcement” to terrorize opponents and intimidate anyone with a pulse. Trump publicly ranted about “traitors” deserving death over a video, then sent his DOJ to try to fabricate a charge out of thin air. The grand jury’s rejection isn’t a fluke: it’s an evisceration of this administration’s illegitimate, authoritarian impulses.

If you’re going to abuse the legal system for political ends, at least have the decency to find a crime.

This wasn’t one.