Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) accused President Donald Trump of "weaponizing" the Department of Justice against his enemies as a distraction from his own scandal.
FBI agents raided the home of former national security adviser John Bolton, who's become a Trump nemesis since his 2019 firing, and the Illinois Democrat told "CNN News Central" that he believes the president was tormenting him as retribution for his criticism and to turn attention away from his long-standing links for the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"Basically, Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ and weaponizing the FBI against his critics," Krishnamoorthi said. "Let's be very clear: This is obviously a message sent to John Bolton, but it's also a message that's trying to be sent to other potential critics or current critics of Donald Trump, that if you continue to criticize him, that you may be next on his list of targets at the FBI."
Kash Patel tweeted 'no one is above the law, FBI agents on mission' during the time frame when the search was underway, and that post was shared by Vice President JD Vance, and Krishnamoorthi said that seemingly confirmed the political motivation behind the raid.
"It looks political to me," he said. "I mean, it looks political. It looks like it's also an attempt to distract from the other big news of the day, which is the first production of the Epstein files that's required by a subpoena from the Oversight Committee on which I sit, and they want to change the conversation repeatedly. This is going to happen every day because they don't want people talking about the Epstein files or about their mismanagement of the economy."
"Today is the first day that the DOJ has been required to comply with the subpoena," Krishnamoorthi added. "They said that they would start producing documents today. I'm concerned that they're going to slow-walk that as well, but there's tremendous clamor for these documents and transparency as to these files, and, as you know, both Donald Trump as well as Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, are trying to prevent that from happening, and they want to change the conversation."
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