{"id":320223,"date":"2025-04-11T01:39:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/rep-darrell-issa-defends-president-trump-weaponizing-justice-department"},"modified":"2025-04-11T01:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:40:01","slug":"rep-darrell-issa-defends-president-trump-weaponizing-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/rep-darrell-issa-defends-president-trump-weaponizing-justice-department","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Darrell Issa Defends President Trump Weaponizing Justice Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"article__header--headline-fragments\">\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf1 text-uppercase h3\">Rep. Darrell Issa<\/span><br \/>\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf2 text-uppercase h1\">Trump Weaponizing DOJ Is Fine By Me &#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf3 text-titlecase h2\">Biden Did It Before!!!<\/span><br \/>\n           <\/h2>\n<p>    <!--\/.social-media-container--><\/p>\n<p>\n            Published <time class=\"published-datetime\" datetime=\"2025-04-10T14:01:00-07:00\">April 10, 2025 2:01 PM PDT<\/time>\n                                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"38.8995073892\">\n<section id=\"cb-5b96968d4a76deb446dbfd91c6cd4ca1\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-c2e28091-e8f9-4393-882b-f150736ad3f9-1002578327-image-holder\" class=\"ratio ratio-item video-block__image-holder\">\n     <button class=\"ratio-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-c2e28091-e8f9-4393-882b-f150736ad3f9-1002578327-play-btn\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Play video content<\/span><br \/>\n     <\/button><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"California\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/a9\/16by9\/2025\/04\/10\/a9746d1bd10f46e2bd25ca2a351b72f2_md.jpg\" alt=\"darrell-issa-kal-04-10-25\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n         <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>          <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">TMZ.com<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-5b96968d4a76deb446dbfd91c6cd4ca1--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-82ffae8124fb627efb0b181483ce7eff\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"23.746835443\">\n<p>Rep. <strong>Darrell Issa<\/strong> is defending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><strong>President Trump<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>using the Justice Department to investigate his political foes &#8230; and he says Trump&#8217;s no worse than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/joe-biden\/\"><strong>Joe Biden<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-82ffae8124fb627efb0b181483ce7eff--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-6981258093b2f46019a28dea3ee35da4\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"29\">\n<p>The Congressman from California joined us on &#8220;TMZ Live&#8221; Thursday and we asked him about Trump directing the DOJ to look into a couple officials from his first term who ultimately became Trump critics.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-6981258093b2f46019a28dea3ee35da4--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-871cd2a5b43f6b4e67c3d774d4ef12d9\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n         <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250410_eff882b2acf54dbc87ec73c737384b94\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:c3c32e12-3c64-4e4b-827b-d1ea614a5847\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\">\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/ef\/4by3\/2025\/04\/10\/eff882b2acf54dbc87ec73c737384b94_md.jpg\" alt=\"trump and darrell issa getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<p>         <\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-871cd2a5b43f6b4e67c3d774d4ef12d9--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-fbbce48894ad3944074feddeef6c7fbc\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>Rep. Issa says Trump weaponizing the DOJ to go after political enemies isn&#8217;t all that different from what Biden did with the DOJ in investigating Trump when Biden was in the White House.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-fbbce48894ad3944074feddeef6c7fbc--><br \/>\n<a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-9546b3ee8799212a41f2a366ab201aa7\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"29\">\n<p>We push back and try telling the Congressman it feels like Trump&#8217;s actions are taking things to the extreme &#8230; but Issa is not having it, claiming every presidency can be picked apart.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-9546b3ee8799212a41f2a366ab201aa7--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-e0c6638b1ef7ae79b86e56b4e1c593a6\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block canvas-gallery-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block--default \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-e0c6638b1ef7ae79b86e56b4e1c593a6--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-25b5446151036646ceaa1d1318cc967c\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"31\">\n<p>Rep. Issa brings up some fair points, to his credit, and it&#8217;s a healthy debate overall. 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