Andy McCarthy Torches Trump for Weaponizing DOJ in Stunning Column: DOJ’s ‘Core Mission’ is Now to ‘Settle the President’s Scores’

Andy McCarthy — a conservative legal analyst who serves as a Fox News contributor — denounced President Donald Trump and his new Attorney General Pam Bondi for weaponizing the Department of Justice.

In a scathing column for the right-leaning National Review on Sunday, McCarthy denounced the “Weaponization Working Group” established by Bondi. McCarthy believes that group practices the very weaponization it is supposedly trying to root out.

“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,” McCarthy wrote. “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. 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.”

McCarthy argued President Joe Biden’s DOJ was politicized — but that Trump also engaged in “serious misconduct.”

“It does not follow that, because the previous Justice Department was politicized, all of the people it targeted were pure as the driven snow,” McCarthy wrote. “Trump engaged in serious misconduct, regardless of whether it was actionable misconduct.”

Of Bondi, McCarthy wrote, “If she is just going to spout Trump’s grievances without putting the Justice Department’s response to egregious behavior in context, then she’s engaging in partisan law enforcement, exactly the noxious practice she claims to be rooting out.”

The conservative legal analyst added, “The weaponization directive is doing politics, not removing politics from law enforcement. 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.”