President Donald Trump ordered the attorney general to hunt for instances of campaigns during the Biden administration against perceived political opponents, as the White House on Monday outlined misleading or unproven arguments over government “weaponization.”
The language of the order dovetails with long-standing allegations from Republicans that the Justice Department acted against Trump and other conservatives during the Biden administration, an effort they say was driven by political bias and laid bare by the two federal criminal cases brought against Trump.
With the broad language, the review could look into a range of issues Republican lawmakers highlighted last Congress, including arguments that the FBI used the security clearance adjudication process to “purge its ranks of conservatives and whistleblowers.”
