Fox analyst Andy McCarthy blasts Trump DOJ for ‘weaponization’ in column

Fox News analyst Andy McCarthy slammed President Trump’s Department of Justice saying new Attorney General Pam Bondi is going to weaponize the department.

In an op-ed published Sunday in National Journal, McCarthy denounced Bondi’s “Weaponization Working Group” and said the group uses the weaponization it’s intended to weed out.

“News flash: Pam Bondi now represents the Justice Department — in fact, leads it. It is thus her ethical duty to advance whatever good-faith defense there is of the government’s conduct,” McCarthy wrote. “If she just going to spout Trump’s grievances without putting the Justice Department’s egregious behavior in context, then she’s engaging in partisan law enforcement, exactly the noxious practice she claims to be rooting out.”

Earlier this month, Bondi was sworn in as attorney general. As a former top prosecutor in Florida, Bondi was approved 54-46 by the Senate. Shortly after taking the job, Bondi fired off a series of memos, including establishing the working group, intended to "root out corruption" at the department.

She faced intense scrutiny from Democrats who expressed concerns that she would give into Trump’s pressure and prosecute his political enemies through the traditionally non-partisan department.

McCarthy pointed out that Trump has issue with Biden-era special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Anyone at the Justice Department or FBI that “aided and abetted” those people are also “guilty by association,” he argued.

“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,” McCarthy concluded.