There's been a lot of talk recently about federal agencies and law enforcement types being weaponized against the political enemies of this administration.

But that's the sort of thing that always happens to, you know, somebody else, like my friend, Paul Vaughn.

Several months ago, the FBI visited his home with guns drawn. They came inside

and dragged him out in front of his wife and his children. And his court case begins this week.

So, uh, let's get into it.

Welcome back to another T-Rex talk.

I am currently walking down 7th Street.

It's the intersection of Church Street and 7th Street.

And I actually come down here fairly often because it's a good parking garage that gets me close to the Tennessee Capitol.

But even though the legislature began, their new session just a few days ago,

actually have nothing to do with Tennessee politics.

Today, it is Saturday morning, and we are actually here in the shadow of a federal courthouse named after Fred Thompson.

We're meeting with a bunch of friends and church members and folks from the larger community

just to pray about an upcoming court case that begins on Tuesday.

I don't want to take away from the fact that the conversation around January 6th has

been ridiculously overblown and a lot of the charges are kind of over the top. But it isn't the

only example of prosecutorial and judicial activism coming down really hard on regular people.

A good friend of mine was raided by the FBI recently, and it is his federal case that

begins on Tuesday.

He's never been on the podcast, and you probably don't know him, but his son-in-law is Kyle, Kyle who works at T-Rex, Kyle who has been on the podcast and you probably don't know him but his son-in-law is kyle kyle who works at t-rex

kyle who has been on the podcast kyle who has been running the uh customer service and customer

experience side of t-rex very well and for a very long time so this case hits pretty close to home for a lot of us. But it also, I think,

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