Senator JD Vance flipped the tables on NBC’s “Meet The Press” host Kristen Welker after she asked whether he would support a “weaponization of the Department of Justice” if former president Donald Trump takes back the White House.
“The DOJ told Congress this week it reviewed all communication since Biden took office and found no contact between federal prosecutors and those involved with that case in New York,” Welker said.
The host then referenced Ohio lawmaker’s past statements criticizing the lawfare attacks on Trump before claiming that there is “no evidence” of a weaponized DOJ under President Biden.
“If it’s not okay for Joe Biden to weaponize the Justice Department, as you say, which there’s no evidence of that, why is it okay for Donald Trump to do that?” Welker asked.
Vance hit back by referencing the dubious hiring of Matthew Colangelo, who resigned from a senior position in the Biden DOJ to work as a prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
“Well, Kristen, first of all, you said that it happens all the time, that the number three person in the Department of Justice jumped ship to join a local prosecutor’s office to go after the president’s political opponent,” Vance said.
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“I don’t think that’s ever happened in the history of American democracy, and I don’t think that we should legitimize it,” the conservative senator said.
“Now, if Donald Trump’s attorney general had his number two or his number three jump ship to a local prosecutor’s office in Ohio or Wisconsin, and that person then went after Donald Trump’s political opposition, that’s a different conversation.”
“All he’s suggesting is that we should investigate credible arguments of wrongdoing.”
“That’s all Donald Trump is saying. That is not a threat to democracy,” he continued.
“That’s merely reinforcing our system of law and government,” he added.
Bragg hired former Biden DOJ official Matthew Colangelo to focus on prosecuting white-collar crimes in Manhattan, to which he was then immediately assigned to the Trump case.
However, Colangelo was more than just an employee.
He served as Acting Associate Attorney General in the Biden Administration, the third most senior position in the Department of Justice.
Colangelo also worked for New York Attorney Letitia James, who launched an investigation into Trump’s alleged overvaluing of his property portfolio.
Further, he was also paid for consulting services to the Democratic National Committee in 20218.
According to FEC records – per Fox News, the DNC Services Corp/Democratic National Committee paid Colangelo two times on January 31, 2018, for a total of $12,000.
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