Governor DeSantis just called out the ‘nonpartisan’ Associated Press for a ridiculous article on President Trump’s Department of Justice.

They title their propaganda piece “Justice Department’s independence is threatened as Trump’s team asserts power over cases and staff,” and in it they write:

Pam Bondi had insisted at her Senate confirmation hearing that as attorney general, her Justice Department would not “play politics.”

Yet in the month since the Trump administration took over the building, a succession of actions has raised concerns the department is doing exactly that.

Top officials have demanded the names of thousands of FBI agents who investigated the Capitol riot, sued a state attorney general who had won a massive fraud verdict against Donald Trump before the 2024 election, and ordered the dismissal of a criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams by saying the charges had handicapped the Democrat’s ability to partner in the Republican administration’s fight against illegal immigration.

Even for a department that has endured its share of scandals, the moves have produced upheaval not seen in decades, tested its independence and rattled the foundations of an institution that has long prided itself on being driven solely by facts, evidence and the law. As firings and resignations mount, the unrest raises the question of whether a president who raged against his own Justice Department during his first term can succeed in bending it to his will in his second.

First of all, the only reason the DOJ demanded the names of “thousands of FBI agents who investigated the Capitol riot” (I thought it was an insurrection, huh?) was because the FBI refused to turn over the names of a core team of agents who led it all.

Also, Bondi made clear the other day that the investigation against Mayor Adams was only brought by Biden’s weaponized DOJ after he began criticizing the Biden administration over illegal immigration.

But the biggest thing to me is that the ‘nonpartisan’ Associated Press completely IGNORED how Joe Biden weaponized his own DOJ against President Trump, never once being concerned about the DOJ’s independence even though Biden was prosecuting his only opponent in the presidential race. Now, suddenly, they are concerned about this?

This is not the angle Governor DeSantis took in his repudiation of this article. Rather, he explained that this so-called independence is really just an unconstitutional and false narrative, pushed by the media to excuse government bureaucracies supporting leftists and frustrating Republican administrations:

The Justice Department is not “independent” of the elected chief executive but is constitutionally accountable to him.

The cries of “independence” from the left/media are rooted in their desire to have a “heads I win, tails you lose” scenario where the bureaucracy exists to facilitate a leftist administration but to frustrate a conservative administration, election results notwithstanding.

That is not how the Constitution is structured or how our government is supposed to function.