The Federal Bureau of Investigation is losing much more time on President Donald Trump’s private grievances, this time by reopening a number of Biden-era investigations.
Dan Bongino, FBI deputy director, is reviving the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court docket opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group, a 2023 incident the place cocaine was discovered on the White Home, and the pipe bombs of Jan. 6—which Bongino is satisfied was an inside job.
Appears to be like like Trump’s government order to finish the weaponization of the federal authorities truly meant that Trump and his henchmen are going to weaponize it wherever doable.
Like a lot of the Trump administration, Bongino didn’t get this job as a result of he has any related expertise, however quite due to his historical past as a far-right podcaster and Fox Information character. He’s on the FBI to do Trump’s bidding, to not truly run the company.
However as far proper as Bongino is, thar hasn’t been sufficient for the MAGA devoted, who’re livid that he and FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide. So now Bongino is making an attempt to get of their good graces—therefore these new investigations.
Besides none of those investigations are new.
Underneath President Joe Biden, there was an eight-month investigation into the Dobbs leak, which included interviewing 97 individuals and having forensic specialists evaluate client entry to the draft. The investigation concluded that it was not doable to establish the leaker.
Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Safety beneath President George W. Bush, additionally reviewed the investigation and concluded that he couldn’t “identify any additional useful investigative measures” that ought to have been taken.
So the Dobbs leak has already been investigated twice, however what in regards to the cocaine?
In 2023, a small bag of cocaine was discovered close to the place guests are required to depart their cell telephones earlier than getting into the White Home. The FBI and the Secret Service each investigated the incident, even utilizing fingerprint and DNA evaluation. The FBI couldn’t develop sufficient latent proof to match in opposition to the a whole bunch of people that handed by way of the realm, and the Secret Service closed the investigation for lack of proof.
In fact, the almost definitely clarification for a bag of cocaine discovered close to the customer space is {that a} customer left it there. However in line with Bongino, there’s “absolutely ZERO chance” that anybody apart from a Biden member of the family might have introduced within the cocaine, so we just about understand how his “investigation” of this one will go.
Equally, Bongino is pretending that there hasn’t been an intensive investigation into the pipe bombs positioned close to the Democratic Nationwide Committee headquarters in January 2021. The FBI visited greater than 1,200 properties and companies and interviewed greater than 1,000 individuals, however Bongino thinks that the FBI is mendacity and “just doesn’t want to tell us because it was an inside job.”
That is what you get while you put a conspiracy principle fanatic in a high-level regulation enforcement job: a willingness to warp regulation enforcement to research no matter nonsense the precise comes up with. And since Bongino’s boss, Patel, can also be a conspiracy theorist—and wildly unqualified for his job—he’s definitely not prone to rein him in.
And it’s not simply the FBI that’s utilizing official assets to pursue Trump’s grievances.
The Division of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is investigating Chicago as a result of the town’s mayor dedicated “reverse racism”—which isn’t a factor—by hiring individuals of coloration in his administration.
The top of the division, Harmeet Dhillon, compelled out many of the profession attorneys within the division and is prioritizing investigating “radical indoctrination” in faculties—no matter meaning—and going after trans athletes.
In the meantime, the Division of Training was already going after faculties for daring to let trans children play sports activities and threatening investigations into range initiatives that the division thinks hurt white youngsters.
None of these items are precise investigations. They’re simply one other means for Trump to make use of the federal government to harm individuals. Bongino is in his job to be sure that occurs, and he is aware of it. Don’t count on him to move up any alternative to misuse the FBI.
