Former President Donald Trump mocked Democrats in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on SiriusXM, claiming he was exhausted while simultaneously falsely claiming he would weaponize the federal government if elected feigned fear.
President Trump's quip was in response to a question from Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle about the government's weaponization against President Trump.
“First they say you're exhausted, then they say I'm going to weaponize the government. You can't be too tired, you know?” President Trump said Democrats He jokingly said it set a terrible legal precedent.
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“So, please understand, they set a very bad precedent with what they did. The third world countries, the banana republics, did that,” he said. said. “But what they did, what they did to me, and…I call it the Ministry of Injustice, what they did to the FBI and the Mar-a-Lago raid. It's unprecedented.”
In 2023, months after Trump announced he would run for president in November 2022, state and federal authorities filed four separate lawsuits against Trump over a five-month period.
The first case was a 34-count indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) accusing President Trump of falsifying business records in April 2023, followed by two indictments brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Federal cases followed, namely the June 2023 presidential documents case and the case surrounding President Trump. The campaign's 2020 election challenge will take place in July 2023.
Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis (D) then indicted Trump in August 2023. Additionally, former Trump adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced to prison for contempt of Congress, and White House chief strategist and former Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon was also indicted. News, one person is currently in prison.
President Trump said the jailing of former White House officials like Navarro and Bannon was once unthinkable in the United States, and stressed that he would never weaponize the government against political opponents.
“So, no, I don't do that, but they do. And you criticized it better than I did,” he told Boyle. “I'm grateful for that, because… they took away Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon, et al. What they did… no one thought was possible.”
“Long before this happened, when the idea came up, people said, 'Oh, but they'd never do that.' They'd never do that.' To do that to a former president. “I won't,” he added. “But they are bad people. I tell you, they are bad people. They are sick.”
