'Noxious practice': Fox legal analyst blasts Trump and Pam Bondi for weaponizing the DOJ
U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi poses on the day of her swearing in ceremony, at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2025.
In a scathing column appearing in the conservative National Review, Andy McCarthy — a Fox News contributor who serves as one of the network's legal analysts — charges Trump AG Pam Bondi with hypocrisy.
In the column, titled, "This Is Not Restoring the Way the Justice Department Is Supposed to Work," McCarthy focuses on the mission of Bondi's “Weaponization Working Group.”
"Under the guise of 'Restoring the Integrity and Credibility of the Department of Justice,' the AG is implementing the Biden DOJ model of conviction first and trial later — if ever. Standing convicted are Trump’s principal prosecutorial nemeses — Biden DOJ special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney General Letitia James — and therefore guilty by association are any DOJ and FBI personnel who aided and abetted them" McCarthy writes. "In what crimes, we’re not told — only that Bondi will be “provid[ing] quarterly reports to the White House regarding the progress of the review.”
Like many Trump supporters, McCarthy believes the Biden administration was engaged in lawfare — the strategic use of the legal system and legal processes as a weapon to achieve, in this case, the political objective of slowing down Trump.
But McCarthy also argues, "it does not follow that, because the previous Justice Department was politicized, all of the people it targeted were pure as the driven snow. Trump engaged in serious misconduct, regardless of whether it was actionable misconduct."
He goes on to accuse Bondi of "noxious practice she claims to be rooting out.”
"Plainly, the ‘Weaponization Working Group’ exists to settle the president’s scores and rewrite dark chapters of his history — while providing him with quarterly assurances of Attorney General Bondi’s progress on what is now the Justice Department’s core mission.”
You can read McCarthy's full column at National Review here.
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