Spandex-wearing grapple freak Jim Jordan this week ordered House Judiciary Committee staff to begin working with the Appropriations Committee on restricting funding to the Justice Department and FBI as revenge for prosecuting his Orange Allah, CNN’s Melanie Zanona reports.
For those keeping score at home, a top Republican in Congress wants to kneecap a federal department responsible for protecting Americans from drug cartels, human traffickers, ISIS/Al-Qaeda terrorists, serial killers, organized crime syndicates, cyberterrorists, ponzi schemers, you name it, all because the fat degenerate game show host they worship got caught stealing classified documents to keep them in a bathroom at his shitty catering hall in south Florida.
You have to be pretty fucking demented to think the public servants at the Justice Department actually wanted this. Did some FBI agents maybe get a little personal enjoyment out of raiding Mar-a-Lago last summer? Of course a few probably did, just as they might enjoy nailing a mafia boss or some asshole hacker. But it would be a safe bet that, from Merrick Garland on down, that the vast majority of the men and women of the department would have preferred that Trump never forced their hand and put them in this situation where they get accused of being a “Stalinist Gestapo” while they’re just trying to do their jobs. They surely would have been much happier if Trump just dropped dead of a heart attack years ago, sparing them from all this bullshit and headaches.
Which, now that we mention it, is something they have in common with Republicans in Congress, many of whom also secretly wish Trump would shed his flabby orange mortal coil. The DOJ and GOP are probably actually on the same page with that, even if they’re not going to say it publicly.