“Just looking at the principle at stake here, if you can remove Comey and Trump out of the equation, as a constitutional attorney and the speaker of the House of Representatives, do you believe it’s acceptable for any president to publicly or privately instruct their attorney general to prosecute a political opponent and go as far as firing a U.S. attorney if they don’t bring charges because they don’t think the case is strong enough?” the sanctimonious Tapper asked.

Johnson, wisely, didn’t take the bait — instead turning the tables on Tapper and reminding him that it was a grand jury, not Trump or the DOJ, that handed down the indictment, clearly seeing the serious charges as worthy of prosecution (video below):

I’m glad you brought up the principle. That is exactly what’s at issue here.

James Comey lied to Congress, OK? He took an oath. He said things to Congress that were simply not true. It’s called perjury. A grand jury that is not — a nonpartisan, non-biased grand jury that was assembled looked at the charges, and they agreed, they voted to bring an indictment of James Comey, not President Trump, not the DOJ, but a grand jury.

That’s how our system works. It’s a very important principle for us to apply that everybody has to subscribe to the law, even a former FBI director. And he has lots to answer for. There are many things that he could have been indicted for, but the statute of limitations ran out on so many of those matters. Not here. Perjury is important. You can’t — especially if you’re a high official, appointed or elected official, you cannot raise your hand, take an oath, and lie to Congress. And that’s an important principle, a principle, Jake, for us to advance.

Tapper kept hammering away with his Democrat talking points, but Johnson wasn’t having it. He fired back, setting the record straight — reminding viewers not only of Comey’s dirty weaponization of the DOJ against Trump, but also of the four years of relentless lawfare Biden’s DOJ has waged to kneecap his likely general election rival:

But what I have cause with Jake is the total and utter weaponization of the Department of Justice. And Comey was a primary person responsible for that. They quite literally for four years under the Biden administration turned the entire apparatus of our judicial system against one person. His name is Donald Trump.

The point is, the Department of Justice currently is doing what the Department of Justice should do. And they have to hold people accountable. We have to ensure that the rule of law applies to everyone. hand that’s exactly what’s happening here.

Democrats love to say ‘no one is above the law,’ but only when their favorites aren’t being charged.

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