The Democratic Party’s unprecedented weaponization of DOJ

Published October 8, 2025 5:00am ET



Elected Democratic officials are hyperventilating over President Donald Trump‘s alleged “long crusade to weaponize the federal government against his perceived political enemies,” but new documents obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reveal that it was former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department that spied on elected members of the opposition party, not Trump’s, and then used internal FBI procedures to cover it up.

New documents given to Grassley by federal law enforcement whistleblowers reveal that at the direction of then-special counsel Jack Smith, FBI agents tracked the personal communications of eight Republican senators, including Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

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