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The Department of Justice, known for its questionable decision-making, has made headlines again after releasing a letter written by Ryan Wesley Routh, a man who recently attempted to take down former President Donald Trump. This brilliant administrative move left former Attorney General Bill Barr shaking his head in disbelief, noting that it serves no purpose but to risk inflaming further violence. It’s almost as if the DOJ is running a Master Class in how to create chaos during an election year.
Bill Barr, who held the attorney general position under two Republican presidents, called the release of the letter “dumbfounding.” Is it not enough that there have been attempts on Trump’s life? Now the DOJ feels it necessary to publicize a document that calls for assassins to “finish the job”? One really has to wonder if the folks over at the DOJ are just trying to get into the “how to stir the pot” Hall of Fame.
Ya think?
Former AG Barr 'dumbfounded' at DOJ’s decision to release letter of Trump would-be assassin
Bill Barr: 'It served no purpose other than to risk inciting further violence'
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Barr pointed out the obvious: the letter is nothing but incendiary, offering a bounty of $150,000 to anyone who successfully eliminates Trump. This raises the question of whether the DOJ has lost its collective mind. Given the ample evidence against Routh, the release of such a letter seems more like a call to arms than a mere bureaucratic oversight. Such actions hardly demonstrate restraint, especially when the evidence was enough to have Routh detained prior to trial without turning this letter into a public spectacle.
The former attorney general elaborated on the potential for a different approach, suggesting that the inflammatory parts of the letter could have been redacted or handled in a more discreet manner. After all, why wave a red flag in front of rioters when a simple cloak of secrecy would do? It’s almost as if the DOJ was asking for trouble, not that they seem to care. With two separate attempts on Trump’s life recently, releasing this letter feels like throwing gasoline on a fire that’s already roaring.
The strange release caught the attention of conservative commentator Breanna Morello, who raised a valid point: why is the DOJ releasing a threatening letter against a former president while keeping the manifesto of a transgender school shooter under wraps for “public safety concerns”? While the DOJ seems intent on making Trump’s life harder every day, it seems they’re curiously uninterested in potential motives behind other acts of violence, which only fuels speculation about their priorities. Is it a vendetta against Trump? A glaring double standard? Morello hinted at the unsettling possibility that the DOJ has its own agenda, and with them, the entire establishment seems to be in on it.
