But his indictment represents just a fraction of the weaponization that has been unfolding at the Justice Department, increasingly under Trump’s direct bidding, for months. The attorney handled sensitive political cases during the first Trump administration and President Joe Biden’s administration, and resigned just before Trump was inaugurated again. A special Republican-led committee investigating Trump’s version of Jan. 6 was formed just weeks ago. The DOJ abruptly closed a Biden-era probe of Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, for allegedly accepting $50,000 from FBI agents posing as business executives. “I don’t know how we rebuild this level of devastation at the Justice Department.
