Asa Hutchinson Says GOP Should ‘Back Off’ Claim That DOJ Has Been Weaponized Against Trump | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson says that members of the Republican Party who claim the Department of Justice has been weaponized against former President Donald Trump should "back off."

    During an appearance on ABC News's "This Week" with host Jonathan Karl, the former Arkansas governor said arguing that the Justice Department has been unfairly targeting Trump "undermines" law enforcement in the United States, adding that Trump's promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Biden family was the real "weaponization" of the DOJ. Hutchinson also repeated his call for Trump to drop out of the race and urged the Republican party to return to the "rule of law."

    "In terms of the overall charge of weaponization of the Justice Department, look at Donald Trump. He's already declared that he- if he's elected president, he's gonna appoint a special prosecutor to go after the Biden family," Hutchinson said. "That's called a weaponization of the Justice Department."

    "And so let's back off of these accusations, and let's get back to being the party of the rule of law, of the justice system supporting law enforcement and the equal application of law," he added. "Let's don't undermine the greatest justice system and criminal justice system and rule of law in the world today, this side of heaven."

    In recent years, Republicans have accused the Department of Justice of being weaponized against Republicans, specifically Trump. The indictment in the federal investigation led by special prosecutor Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, has ratcheted up those accusations.

    House Republicans even created the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government in January to look into "disparate treatment" from the DOJ. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the committee, pointed to the DOJ's actions against President Trump when discussing the founding of the committee.

    "Clinton mishandles classified information, Biden mishandles classified information, and they get treated a certain way," Jordan said. "Then, of course, President Trump gets his home raided 91 days before this midterm election."

    During the interview with Karl, Hutchinson argued that Trump should put the "office of presidency and our country" above himself. Multiple polls show Trump leading the Republican field of candidates, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in second.

    "Whenever you've got these serious allegations against you, whenever you've got the challenge of multiple different investigations during the course of the next year, it's not fair to the country and certainly it's not fair to the party that wants to get this country back on track," Hutchinson said.

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In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

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Considering how abjectly corrupt and civilly abusive the Left has become regarding the corrosive effect of their elected leaders; their entrenched and ruling bureaucracy; employing their failed Education Industry as Indoctrinators; their collusive private sector operators, such as the terminally discredited Legacy Media and Big Tech censorship of Free Speech: What will be the best course forward for hardworking Middle Americans, including the Patriot Class?

  Withdraw from society, go underground and plan for a resurgence when it is feasible to do so.

  Work within the confines of better policy by the People's government, once good sense and sanity is restored in the electorate at large, to achieve such.

  Are you a crazy, nut-job Insurrectionist? Everything is perfect within our plan to achieve our intended goals for the Socialist Left.

  Secession to form a true Constitutional Republic.

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