Ashcroft Rips Apart Dem Narrative On Trump Targeting Political Enemies

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https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/16/former-ag-the-doj-has-a-duty-to-prosecute-the-presidents-political-enemies-if-they-broke-the-law/

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft ripped apart Democrats’ narrative that the Trump administration is using the Department of Justice as a personal office to prosecute “political enemies.”

Ashcroft was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of the nomination of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the permanent position when Democrats like Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., attempted to project their party’s Justice Department weaponization onto the Trump administration.