Posted by Alumni from The Atlantic
April 21, 2026
The day that Donald Trump swore his second oath of office, he signed an executive order demanding 'accountability for the previous administration's weaponization of the Federal Government against the American people.' Within weeks, freshly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi had established a 'Weaponization Working Group' aimed at rooting out supposed 'abuses of the criminal justice process' under the Biden administration. Despite this initial fanfare, the Weaponization Working Group has been largely quiet'until now. Last week, the group released its very first report, trumpeting its discovery of 'shameful' abuses of prosecutorial power under Joe Biden against 'pro-life Americans.' But the Weaponization Working Group has discovered very little 'weaponization' at all. And whatever sins it does describe'both real and imagined'may serve as justification for perpetrating the very thing it decries. The weaponization report takes the form of a classic Trump two-step: First, claim that... learn more