Former President Donald Trump vowed not to repeat the “unprecedented” prosecutions of political opponents seen during the Biden-Harris administration during an interview last week with Matthew Boyle of Breitbart News.
Responding to Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims that Trump intends to weaponize the government against his political adversaries, the former president told Boyle that Democrats resort to such tactics and confirmed he “won’t be doing that” should he be returned to the White House in November.
“Just so you understand, they’ve set a very bad precedent with what they’ve done,” Trump told Boyle. “Third-world countries, banana republics, have done it. But what they have done, what they have done with me, with the… I call it the Department of Injustice, and the FBI and the raids on Mar-a-Lago. It’s unprecedented.”
Trump seemed to refer to his $100 million lawsuit against the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) or another forthcoming lawsuit, which he said was aimed at stopping what he called Democratic weaponization of the DOJ, local district attorneys, and attorneys general, to harangue Republicans.
“What they’ve done with this is too bad, and such a precedent for our country,” said Trump. “No, I won’t be doing that, but they are doing it.”
Trump then offered the Biden-Harris DOJ’s prosecutions of Steve Bannon, the former Trump adviser and chief strategist to the Trump administration, and former Trump administration White House National Trade Council director Peter Navarro, who were both imprisoned for refusing to participate with the House select committee that investigated January 6.
“What they’ve taken,” Trump told Boyle. “Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon, and others. What they have done, it’s just not even, nobody thought it was possible.”
The former president said, “They are bad people. They’re sick, in their own way, they’re deranged, and I’m surprised that Merrick Garland allowed that to happen, to be honest with you.
Trump’s comments were made shortly after Bannon accused the Biden-Harris administration of illegally extending his four-month prison sentence by failing to uphold the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018, a bipartisan criminal justice reform enacted with the vocal support of the former president, in a Friday statement to The National Pulse.
Bannon wrote that Harris “has done nothing to implement President Trump’s heroic First Step Act, in fact welcoming hundreds of thousands of hardened illegal migrant criminals while allowing US citizens eligible for early release to rot in prison,” and predicted the administration’s failure to enact the FSA will help Trump win on Election Day.
“Harris will lose this election on her inability to get black and hispanic men to vote for her in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Phoenix, and Las Vegas,” Bannon told the outlet. “The four years she did nothing for family reunification of American citizen prisoners while genuflecting to illegal alien criminals is coming back to bite her.”
A source familiar with Bannon’s situation told The Tennessee Star last week that the former Trump adviser remains scheduled for release on October 29. However, an analysis of the FSA found that Bannon should likely have been released by October 11 if he received the good time credits afforded to prisoners under the criminal justice reform.
The Bureau of Prisons declined to state whether Bannon was deemed eligible for the FSA when contacted by The Star on Monday.
Hear Trump’s full appearance on “Breitbart News Daily”:
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
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