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Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

In a decisive verdict at the ballot box, the American people delivered Donald Trump a historic majority of votes, a dispositive Electoral College win, a unified Republican Congress, and with it a clear mandate to remake America according to his vision. Central to that vision is a vow to transform the Department of Justice. The most powerful law enforcement body in the Western world has become a rogue state-within-a-state, arrogating to itself the right to decide U.S. foreign policy, dictate the outcome of elections, and imprison political enemies. The DOJ tried to imprison Donald Trump and prevent his return as president. They narrowly failed, and now the organization must be remade completely to ensure it can never menace the American republic again.

With all of the corruption and political weaponization exposed throughout our national security bureaucracies, there is something uniquely significant and dangerous about the corruption at the Department of Justice. In a certain way, we almost expect intelligence organizations to play dirty. We simply hope, expect, and deserve that they play dirty not for domestic political reasons but to secure America’s advantage in relation to geopolitical rivals and enemies. The corruption of the Department of Justice is uniquely pernicious because it strikes at the very core of the American self-conception as a free society—what distinguishes us from other nations is we’re a nation governed by the rule of law, where justice is blind and not perverted for the illegitimate purpose of harming one’s political adversaries. It was only when the Biden regime began to prosecute Trump and his supporters that the term “banana republic” became commonplace to refer to our once great nation. Fixing and restoring faith in our Department of Justice is therefore the most critical precondition for draining the swamp more generally throughout our government.

This indispensable mission requires an indispensable man, and last week Donald Trump selected the only man in the country truly equipped to lead and reform the Department of Justice in the manner our nation requires—Congressman Matt Gaetz. It could, truthfully, be no one else. No one better combines utter loyalty to Trump and the MAGA movement, exceptional legal expertise, and demonstrated bravery for the difficult task ahead.

Need proof? Sure, we could cite Gaetz’s steadfast support for secure borders, his consistent opposition to idiotic foreign wars, or his stalwart stand against the Russia hoax. But the best proof of all is this: other than Trump himself, nobody in Washington has faced a more concerted effort to force him out than Matt Gaetz.

Three and a half years ago, shortly after Biden took office, the DOJ hijacked the headlines with a shocking report that Gaetz was under criminal investigation. Three and a half years later, ask yourself: Was Gaetz ever convicted of anything? Was he even charged with anything?

And yet, at the time, Washington screamed for Gaetz to resign. To them, the false accusation alone was enough.

Readers might recall that Revolver News bluntly called out the investigation for what it was: a calculated assault on Gaetz’s reputation, straight from the playbook of East Germany’s Stasi. The so-called “Zersetzung” (or “disintegration”) attack works through “a systematic degradation of reputation, image, and prestige on the basis of true, verifiable, and discrediting information together with untrue, credible, irrefutable, and thus also discrediting information.”

READ: The New York Times Goes Full-Blown ‘East German Stasi’ to Destroy Matt Gaetz

For years, Gaetz has been hit with “allegations” and “investigations” that are high on sensationalism but low on actual proven wrongdoing. The same DOJ that threw hundreds of J6 participants behind bars and found 700 years worth of charges to bring against Donald Trump hasn’t pieced together a single indictment against Gaetz, and not for lack of trying.

In the weeks to come, the attacks and innuendos against Gaetz will become even worse. We must always remember the fact that none of the objections to Gaetz are about his qualifications or his conduct—instead, all of them are about the agenda Matt Gaetz will pursue as Attorney General. And that agenda is sure to be sweeping and magnificent, because Gaetz understands the cancers poisoning America like few others do.

President Trump is “all in” on ensuring Gaetz’ confirmation. This is critical not only for the reasons described above, but for the fact that the appointment of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General sets the narrative that Trump absolutely means business.

Here is what a MAGA agenda for American justice looks like. This isn’t a wishlist; it’s a real agenda that can easily be achieved if we join President Trump’s efforts to confirm Matt Gaetz by any means necessary.

Make the First Amendment First Again

During the first Trump term, the Department of Justice created a “Religious Liberty Task Force” to roll back various Obama-era attacks on the freedom of religious expression in America. Obviously, Covid-era attacks on free worship show that the cause remains as worthy as ever, but the Gaetz DOJ can create a new, equally important battle group: a Free Speech Task Force.

This task force should be given a mission and the power to coordinate anti-censorship efforts all across the federal government. Many have speculated that the second Trump Administration could release “Twitter Files” equivalents for many federal departments and maybe even force the release of internal documents at other tech giants besides Twitter. This First Amendment Task Force would be the ones who make sure this happens. Scour the entire executive branch to find those who conspired against Americans’ free speech rights and send them packing. If warranted, send them to jail for conspiracy against rights.

Give the False Claims Act Teeth

Trump has pledged to drastically overhaul the behavior of America’s universities:

College is a scam, but the day of reckoning has come. President Trump’s “secret weapon” will be to:

– Target the radical left accreditation system
– Purge the Marxist DEI bureaucrats
– Unleash the DOJ to prosecute schools that continue pushing racial discrimination
– Seize entire endowments of schools that resist

We have a real chance to see a renaissance in higher education. We must seize it.

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While many changes will be engineered by the Department of Education, the Department of Justice has an equally crucial role to play, and not just with the Office of Civil Rights that Trump mentions in the above clip.

The federal False Claims Act is a little-known but highly impactful federal law, dating to the Civil War, that grants qui tam bounty rewards to those who expose fraud committed against the federal government. What is a qui tam bounty?

The Tax Adviser:

A qui tam action is a relatively unknown tool in the toolbox of tax enforcement that is growing in importance in some states. Qui tam is short for the Latin phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur, which means “who brings the action for the king as well as for himself” (Black’s Law Dictionary (8th ed. West 2004)). A qui tam action is a type of whistleblower lawsuit brought by a private party, called a relator, on the government’s behalf to prevent fraud and assist the government in recovering funds that have been “stolen” from the government. The relator, who files the suit under a statute known as a false claims act (FCA), usually receives a share of the monetary damages recovered by the government as a result of the qui tam action.

In other words, a qui tam bounty enables whistleblowers who expose fraud against the government to sue, and the whistleblowers can get a share of the funds recovered. Mostly, the law is used to reward those who expose fraud in the realm of taxes, Medicare, or defense contracting, but a bold new Gaetz DOJ could find a new use for it: giving teeth to a new Trump ban on racial discrimination in colleges.

Hundreds of universities and other entities have obtained federal contracts, in part, by pledging that they engage in no illegal racial discrimination. Yet 2023’s Supreme Court case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard made it clear that racial discrimination is rampant in academia, in the form of systematic discrimination against white and Asian applicants.

The Gaetz DOJ should openly solicit qui tam actions under the False Claims Act brought by plaintiffs against universities that obtained loans or federal research funds by falsely claiming to have no racial discrimination. This strategy would reduce the burden on the DOJ to expose wrongdoers and instead encourage private whistleblowers to amass evidence on the government’s behalf.

For the past year, many American universities have acted with glaring, arrogant defiance toward 2023’s Supreme Court ruling. An aggressive DOJ policy will bring them back in line—quickly.

Fix the Douglass Mackey case

Many have understandably called for President Trump to issue a Day One pardon to Douglass Mackey, the pro-Trump meme-maker targeted by the Biden DOJ for making an “illegal meme” on Twitter. But the Gaetz DOJ can do one better. A pardon would concede the legitimacy of the case against Mackey and simply grant clemency. More is needed. The Gaetz DOJ can move to have Mackey’s conviction vacated entirely. The department should investigate how the charges were ever brought in the first place and fire everyone involved in that disgraceful matter.

The DOJ could even offer Mackey compensation for its false and politically motivated charges against him.

The Great Transparency Project

The CIA isn’t the only part of the government with a lot of long-classified documents to cover up. The FBI in particular has a long history of scandalous behavior that hasn’t yet fully come to light.

The Gaetz DOJ can take major steps toward restoring the legitimacy of our institutions by releasing files that expose just how bad and corrupt things really were. Release everything related to January 6, of course, but also the Russia hoax, and perhaps even files pertaining to the cover-up of the Oklahoma City bombing (in which soon-to-be former Attorney General Merrick Garland was a key participant).

Anywhere the FBI helped stoke or provoke domestic terrorism and other crimes, the general public deserves to know everything. Declassify the results of the FBI’s Hoover-era spying, like its notorious tapes of Martin Luther King Jr. Reveal everything the Bureau ever learned about 9/11. Such a release will help restore public trust in agencies, dispel (or confirm!) conspiracy theories, and most importantly, break down the moat separating the FBI from the people that they are supposed to be working on the behalf of.

A full exposure and accounting of the regime’s crimes will not only serve to restore much-needed legitimacy in our institutions but also further discredit the perpetrators of these crimes in the eyes of the voting public, thus helping to defang fake media narratives buttressing the regime and secure America First electoral victories into the foreseeable future.

Break the Empire State

Lawfare isn’t just a federal problem. Over the past decade, ambitious politicians in New York have built the state’s massive state-level justice department into a potent lawfare engine of its own. In fact, New York’s lawfare is arguably even worse than the federal version, simply because of how aggressive and shameless it is. It is the New York DOJ that has pioneered practices like subpoenaing entities like 4chan for records with the obvious and sole intention of doxxing anybody connected to them through weaponized leaks. New York’s banking regulatory body pressured banks and insurers to cut ties with the NRA, implicitly threatening them with investigation if they did not—a brand of lawfare so egregious that when it went before the Supreme Court, even the Biden Administration and Sonia Sotomayor said the state went too far.

In New York City, Alvin Bragg bent the law into a pretzel so he could bring a felony prosecution against Donald Trump, and at the state level, Letitia James used an unprecedentedly aggressive fraud case to break up the Trump Organization.

Fortunately, there are ways to fight back, and the left itself has set the model. Starting in the Obama years and revived under Biden, the DOJ has harassed many cities with wide-ranging “civil rights investigations.” For the most part, these investigations went after police departments for going after criminals instead of letting them roam free like deadly wildlife. After a few years of ferreting around, the DOJ would pressure cities into “consent decrees” that rolled back policing and often sent crime surging.

Well, it’s time to bring a big civil rights investigation against New York state for its calculated war against freedom of association, freedom of speech, and other core constitutional rights. Besiege the Empire State with subpoenas, records requests, lawsuits, and, if warranted, criminal charges. New York Democrats like Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams may prove surprisingly amenable to assisting in this operation—if they offer help, take it.

Fun With FARA

One development of the first Trump term was the revival of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the rarely enforced law that requires U.S. residents operating on behalf of foreign powers to register as foreign agents or face imprisonment. The law was used to force RT, Xinhua, and other foreign news outlets to register as foreign influence operations, and it was also employed against former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort for his work with Ukraine.

The past four years have made it clear, though, that China, Russia, and various oligarchies aren’t the only countries exerting influence on America. The Foundation for Freedom Online has chronicled how non-profits linked directly to the governments of Britain and Germany play a role in promoting censorship here in America. The Britain-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, for instance, enjoys extensive links to current British PM Keir Starmer and has made “Kill Musk’s Twitter” a chief goal. Similarly, two years ago, Revolver flagged how abortive Biden appointee Nina Jankowicz had worked for a U.K.-funded NGO that fought anti-NATO “disinformation” by attempting to rig online narratives to smear politicians as “pro-Kremlin.”

The future Matt Gaetz DOJ should mark all of this pro-censorship agitation for what it is: an attempt by foreign regimes hostile towards free speech to control narratives in the U.S. As such, Americans who collaborate with these organizations must register as foreign agents or face prosecution. Just use Ms. Jankowicz herself as a model: After getting her Biden nomination spiked, Jankowicz has now registered as a foreign agent!

Spook the SPLC

For years, left-wingers in the DOJ and left-wing groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have operated in a symbiotic relationship: The FBI uses these groups as “experts” in identifying “extremism,” allowing them to be presented as neutral experts. The groups themselves, then, label their political foes as “extremists” in order to target them for deplatforming, censorship, and, of course, FBI investigation. When the FBI was caught labeling Latin Mass attendees as a criminal threat in 2023, the SPLC was a key source justifying this gross overreach.

One of the most obvious low-hanging fruits for a Gaetz DOJ is to immediately prohibit all use of groups like the ADL or SPLC as “expert” sources for labeling supposed extremists. But Gaetz should go a step further and take aim at the organizations themselves—especially the corrupt, bloated, and likely criminal SPLC.

As Revolver remarked a year ago:

Other liberals have been calling out the SPLC as a highly questionable organization for decades. In 2019, former SPLC staffer Bob Moser described the SPLC as a “con” that was “ripping off donors.” All the way back in 1996, the head of another progressive non-profit described founder Morris Dees as “a fraud and a conman.”

But there’s no reason to stop at the organization’s potentially shady finances. In 2019, the SPLC fired founder Morris Dees and alleged a pattern of both harassment and discrimination. The group promised a sweeping investigation with a full report, and of course, neither happened. Instead, as soon as attention wandered elsewhere, the whole matter was buried. Why not unbury it?

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There’s more. During the trial of Douglass Mackey for making illegal memes in the 2016 election, the SPLC menaced one of Mackey’s planned character witnesses, Prof. George Hawley of the University of Alabama. Just before Mackey was to testify, the SPLC planned to release a hitpiece against Hawley, threatening his career to keep him from testifying. The gambit worked, and Hawley backed out. In essence, the SPLC engaged in witness tampering. And guess what? That’s a crime!

The SPLC is such a flagrantly corrupt organization, in fact, that there is literally no downside to going after them: Either the group will be taken down a peg (or even destroyed), and America will benefit, or else the left will rally to the group’s defense and flood it with donations, ensuring that left-wing money goes to one of the shadiest grift operations in American politics.

Fight Crime: 

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Apart from nation-wrecking inflation, one of the most conspicuous legacies of the Biden-Harris nightmare is the rampant crime that has plagued American cities. The crime is so bad that the FBI was caught fudging the crime statistics (this will also be fixed under AG Gaetz). But the nation has eyes to see, and what we see is dirty, rotten, crime-infested hellholes in what used to be our nation’s great cities. San Francisco and Philadelphia are the paradigmatic examples of this, but the phenomenon sadly is not confined to these two cesspits.

Much of policing is a local prerogative and therefore outside of the federal jurisdiction of the Department of Justice. Nonetheless, there is much that can be done from the AG’s perch.

One method is to simply draw back aggressively on tactics deployed by Democrats to weaken the police’s abilities to do their job. One example would be to further cut back on the Obama and Biden era tactic of punishing police for policing traditionally high-crime areas under the guise of “civil rights.” The BLM crime wave that followed the death of George Floyd caused untold destruction and death and particularly harmed the minority neighborhoods the Obama and Biden era policies to undermine police claimed to protect.

Of course, police who abuse power should be punished. But equally necessary, police should be given the authority to actually do their jobs and fight crime. That Matt Gaetz is known to be very friendly with the great Bukele of El Salvador gives us further encouragement in this respect. Indeed, Bukele may very well be the greatest crime fighter in all of history, who in a short space of time fundamentally transformed his country from a gang-infested terror to one of the safest and most prosperous regions in Latin America.

The Bukele example shows that all it takes is will and leadership to fundamentally turn things around.

We can go on and on—indeed, to recall all of the positive transformational changes Matt Gaetz will be able to effect at DOJ is to engage in an embarrassment of riches. It will be difficult work, but it is necessary work, and the payoff will help to set America on a footing to once again be celebrated at home and abroad for its safety, freedom, and prosperity.

More than any other department of the government, the Department of Justice needs a thorough housecleaning. It needs to change its policies, its priorities, its practices, and its personnel. The DOJ holds immense power and has become immensely rotten. Fixing it requires maximum ambition and maximum aggression. Nobody is as prepared to bring that aggression as Rep. Gaetz.

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