Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Missouri, decried an FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, calling it an “unprecedented weaponization” of the Department of Justice against one of President Joe Biden’s political opponents.
Schmitt cited several actions by the Department of Justice that conservatives have taken issue with — a letter asking the FBI to look into threats made against school board members, an audit of a local police agency’s concealed carry permits, lack of action against protests outside of the houses of U.S. Supreme Court justices, lack of action on the president’s son’s financial and business ties to foreign countries and the proposed 87,000 new IRS agents in a bill moving through Congress (IRS agents are in the Department of Treasury and refer their findings to the Department of Justice).
“When I’m in the Senate I’ll take a wrecking ball to this overtly political DOJ and the Administrative State,” said Schmitt, the state’s top law enforcement official.
