Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a gaffe that will delight critics, declaring confidently that President Donald Trump’s administration is restoring the Department of Justice to focus on “fighting law and order.”
The prospect of Trump seeking retribution against the Jan. 6 committee was revived Monday when the president baselessly asserted that President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons are “VOID” based on evidence-free claims they were signed with an autopen without Biden’s knowledge.
Trump first raised the issue during a gaggle aboard Air Force One, then in a more forcefully worded post on Truth Social.
During Monday’s White House press briefing, ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott asked Leavitt if Trump wants the Department of Justice to investigate the committee, and Leavitt made her unfortunate slip:
RACHEL SCOTT: Is it the president’s belief that the Justice Department should be investigating members of the January 6th Select Committee, is he directing the DOJ to do that?KAROLINE LEAVITT: As the president made it very clear in his address on Friday, I believe some of you were there, I was there, he made his vision for what he would like to see of the Department of Justice very clear.But he said that he has appointed great people in Attorney General Pam Bondi and also in our FBI Director Kash Patel to do what they think is best for our justice system and to stop the
weaponization of justice that we saw under the previous administration against not just President Trump, but his supporters as well.We want to restore the Department of Justice to an institution that focuses on fighting law and order, and crime, and putting real criminals behind bars, not targeting Americans because of their religion or their political speech.We saw that under the previous administration and it’s unacceptable to this president.
Watch above via The White House.