CNN’s Boris Sanchez Throws Down With Ex-Trump DOJ Official Over DOJ ‘Weaponization’

CNN’s Boris Sanchez battled with former Trump Department of Justice official Chad Mizelle Monday over the new “Weaponization Working Group” that’s set to meet daily to look into Trump’s perceived enemies.

Meizelle left his position as DOJ chief of staff last October, but has remained involved with the administration.

Mizelle said the group plans to investigate “reports about lying to Congress, some of the things that happened with John Bolton, a couple other administration officials, things related to Arctic Frost” and “things related to other oversight documents where it appears that prior administrations weren’t particularly truthful with the American people or members of Congress.”

“I do wonder how much of this is tied directly to the president’s publicly calling out Attorney General [Pam] Bondi — admonishing her, pressing her — to go after people he’s had issues with,” Sanchez said.

“I don’t think it’s about that,” Mizelle said. “Listen, I think that these are people that the American people have had issues with. The American people have an issue with the political opponent using and weaponizing the Department of Justice to raid the home of a rival, to sift through personal effects of the rival, to drag them out in a very public spectacle.”

“Does it not stand out to you that the president is exactly doing what this task force is intended to prevent?” Sanchez asked.

“Absolutely not,” Mizelle snapped back. “If there’s no accountability for improperly using the Department of Justice or lying to members of Congress, or lying to grand juries, or not presenting them with a full evidence or continuing to use the —”

“Do you have evidence?” Sanchez interrupted. “You mentioned a moment ago — I assume you were alluding to the search and seizure of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago when you were talking about a Justice Department going after a president’s rival. There is no evidence thus far that President [Joe] Biden directed Attorney General Merrick Garland to do that. In fact, many Democrats criticized Merrick Garland for not doing it sooner…Because Jack Smith went through a legal process. There were warrants that were obtained. There were grand juries that signed off on the indictments against President Trump. Do you have any evidence that those investigations, those grand juries were lied to or judges were misled?”

“First off, I would just say, as a matter of common sense, do we really think the Department of Justice raided the home of the former president and candidate to be the next president of the United States, and nobody in Joe Biden’s White House knew about that?” Mizelle asked. “So just as a common sense gut check, that doesn’t pass the smell test.”

Mizelle was roasted recently for using X to recruit federal prosecutors who “support President Trump.”

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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