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“Sunday Night in America” host Trey Gowdy examined the nation’s declining faith in the Justice Department and the FBI on his show over the weekend following the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last week.
TREY GOWDY: Politics ruins everything it touches. Religion, education, sports and our justice system. … We focus on the law because we are a nation of laws. No one is above the law. But there is no one below either. Consistency, fairness, impartiality, equality, these words should mean something and the best way to demonstrate their meaning is by applying them to friend and foe alike. Lady Justice, after all, is blindfolded for a reason. The competing reality we face is the last six years of seeing the Justice Department and the FBI, those once venerable institutions, now see themselves as mere extensions of political parties.
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For those wondering why Republicans see double standards from the FBI and the DOJ, look no further. We should want facts because facts are all that matter, but facts should matter just as much regardless of who is being investigated. Many Americans believe that this is no longer the case, that the blindfold has slipped, that Lady Justice is watching, that the FBI treats Republicans differently and worse than Democrats. Americans are concluding [Justice] The department and the office are just two more institutions ruined by politics.
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