Former President Donald Trump on Monday decried the rampant politicization and weaponization of federal law enforcement institutions such as the FBI.
"It's totally been weaponized with these prosecutors," Trump said Monday on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "They've been going after me for years — prosecutors and the Democrats on the radical left. By the way, the higher my poll numbers go, the harder they come at me."
Public backlash has been growing against the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal law enforcement agencies for perceived politicization and abuse of power. Examples include collusion with social media platforms to censor user content, cooperation with demands to monitor parents sounding off at school board meetings as potential domestic terrorists, and referring to Catholics that go to Latin mass as "extremist threats."
The former president also railed against what he views as federal law enforcement double standards regarding retention and storage of classified records.