Obama Breaks Silence, Trump's DOJ Buries Investigation to Protect MAGA Congressman
IHIP News
Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Josh Welch joins us to break down the absolute disgrace that the DOJ has become under Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, back by popular demand. |
| 0:06.5 | It's the one that only Josh Welch, and we have to talk. |
| 0:10.0 | Obama is speaking out against Trump's use of the DOJ to go after his political enemies. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's play the clip. |
| 0:19.0 | What powers do you believe the president should not have? |
| 0:22.2 | Well, there are a couple that I followed even though they weren't law. And I want us, |
| 0:30.2 | we're going to have to do some work to return to this basic norm. And we probably now have to |
| 0:35.3 | codify it. The White House shouldn't be able to direct the Attorney General to go around prosecuting |
| 0:42.3 | whoever the President wants to prosecute. |
| 0:45.3 | The technique is under executive branch. |
| 0:47.3 | The norm is that it's independent. |
| 0:49.3 | The idea is that the Attorney General is the people's lawyer. |
| 0:56.3 | It's not the president's con sigliary. |
| 0:58.4 | Josh. |
| 1:05.0 | I think he puts his finger right on it up close when you see what the Department of Justice has done to weaponize the rule of law against political opponents of President Trump. |
| 1:10.3 | It's reminiscent of any sort of authoritarian regime where you see a leader going after his political opponents. |
| 1:18.1 | We've never seen the Department of Justice used to this extent as a political or police basically watchdog for the president. |
| 1:26.4 | Right. And I believe they always accused the weaponization of the government. |
| 1:32.4 | They accused Obama of weaponization. |
| 1:34.7 | They accused Joe Biden of weaponization. |
| 1:37.5 | And I just want to say, I wish Biden would have weaponized the DOJ. |
| 1:41.0 | I wish they would have done their fucking job and said, go get these fascists that tried to |
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