Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. I know I said buckle up on Monday, but I'm going to maybe invoke the airbags today because we have brand new reporting.

I'm what the New York Times describes as the, quote, roadmap for retribution.

It's an executive order cloaked in Orwellian double speak that could lay the groundwork for prosecutions of Biden administration officials and Trump's political critics.

The Times reports this of the order titled ending the weaponization of the federal government.

Quote, Trump's new executive order

directs the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence to investigate the

previous administration's actions with the aim of unearthing political bias in the agencies

they oversee, as well as in others, like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.

They will then report back to the White House, quote, with recommendations for appropriate

remedial actions.

Now, what this amounts to is an attempt to put Trump's words to paper an action.

But those are cases.

It's called weaponization.

Never happened in this country. They weaponized the

Justice Department. I think the people know it's a political persecution. It's a political

hoax. They've weaponized the Justice Department. They've weaponized the FBI.

That is just a minuscule fraction of the times that Donald Trump has alleged that the government

was weaponized against him. He said it over and over and over and over again without ever

presenting a single scrap of evidence. In light of all that, the outcome of the search for political

bias appears to be preordained by Donald Trump,

and this executive order is just part of a series of actions intended to punish critics,

to silence them, and to emboldened and empower his allies.

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