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Zorro

(18,737 posts)
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:25 PM Yesterday

Trump Administration Issues First 'Weaponization' Report, Claiming Bias Under Biden

Source: New York Times

The report is part of the president’s effort to claim anti-conservative and anti-Christian biases in federal law enforcement, even as he pushes to wield the legal system against his political enemies.

The Justice Department accused the Biden administration of unfairly prosecuting anti-abortion activists, according to a report issued on Tuesday, part of a broader effort by President Trump to counter what he has claimed were anti-conservative biases by federal law enforcement under his predecessor.

The report is the first of several expected to be released by the department’s Weaponization Working Group, which promised to scrutinize a range of issues, including the criminal investigations into Mr. Trump and what he has cast as anti-Christian and anti-Catholic biases under President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

The 37-page report, featuring more than 800 additional pages of internal emails and other exhibits, comes at a tenuous time in President Trump’s relationship with the religious right. In recent days, Mr. Trump posted an image of himself as Jesus Christ, and attacked Pope Leo XIV, the leader of the Catholic Church, as “weak on crime,” drawing backlash from some of his own supporters.

Shortly before the document’s release, the Trump administration fired three career department lawyers who had worked on the cases at issue in the report, according to people familiar with the dismissals.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/politics/trump-weaponization-report-biden-doj-abortion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a1A.SLMG.Mb7hbIypVLgn&smid=url-share

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Trump Administration Issues First 'Weaponization' Report, Claiming Bias Under Biden (Original Post) Zorro Yesterday OP
fascist edicts wolfie001 Yesterday #1
When are we gonna have had enough of this 💩 Deuxcents Yesterday #2
Sounds like the report does the same thing it accuses Biden of having done bucolic_frolic Yesterday #3
Anti-Catholic biases during Biden's Administration? ... aggiesal Yesterday #4
If the anti-abortion activists were breaking the law then that is proper prosecution. Boomerproud Yesterday #5
BS maxsolomon Yesterday #6
Bullshit jfz9580m 19 hrs ago #7

bucolic_frolic

(55,381 posts)
3. Sounds like the report does the same thing it accuses Biden of having done
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:30 PM
Yesterday

This is a zero sum political polarization program seeking to concentrate power on the right.

aggiesal

(10,832 posts)
4. Anti-Catholic biases during Biden's Administration? ...
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:50 PM
Yesterday

Biden is Catholic. What is this administration smoking?

Boomerproud

(9,317 posts)
5. If the anti-abortion activists were breaking the law then that is proper prosecution.
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:00 PM
Yesterday

EOM

jfz9580m

(17,367 posts)
7. Bullshit
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 12:26 AM
19 hrs ago

Biden was himself a practicing Christian.

Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022. Disingenuous much?

It is a tangled hairball of a machine anyway (thankfully) and this Trumpian instant gratification type whose connection formation’s primary utility is in a reliable anti-example of how sanity works..
Yeesh

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