Lankford on CNN’s SOTU: If Someone Is Undercutting President Trump at DOJ ‘They Should Be Gone’

Oklahoma City, OK – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined CNN’s State of the Union to discuss how the Senate will be confirming President Trump’s nominees. He also stressed the importance of removing anyone at the Department of Justice who is actively working to undermine President Trump. Watch the full interview here. 

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Bash: Are you on board with her [Pam Bondi] going after career prosecutors and investigators as retribution for Donald Trump?

Lankford: I don’t know if it’s retribution, I think it’s trying to be able to get us back to neutral and to balance on that, Dana. Quite frankly, we have US attorneys that were appointed by President Biden that had his perspective and his focus. Obviously many of those will switch out to folks—as every single president does as they change out US attorneys. We also have individuals within the FBI and that was very well known after Trump came on in 2016, that there were members of the FBI that hated him, that were in senior leadership, that were working to be able to undercut him. Peter Strzok, multiple others that were actively working to try to undercut the president. I think it’s entirely appropriate for Pam Bondi to step in and to say—or whoever that is as Attorney General—to be able to step in and say ‘We’re not going to allow someone to try to undercut the President of the United States in this Department of Justice.’ You’ve gotta actually be balanced about justice, not about attacking the president. 

Bash: Yeah, which makes sense, but the question is whether or not they’re going to go after his—or who he perceives to be his political opponents.

Lankford: Well if they’re political opponents, they should be advocates for America not opponents of the president. So if someone is in the Department of Justice right now that is actively trying to undercut the president, they should be gone.

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