Does President Trump Know that the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group Is No Longer Working?

 

Does President Trump know that the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group is no longer working?

Shortly after former AG Pam Bondi was sworn in as AG, far-left MSM Outlet ABC News reported on February 5, 2025:

In her first hours after being sworn in Wednesday as the nation’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a directive Wednesday establishing a “Weaponization Working Group” that she says will be tasked with reviewing “politicized” actions of officials who investigated President Donald Trump at both the state and federal levels.

Bondi’s memo mandates that the group reviews the prosecutions of Trump brought by special counsel Jack Smith and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as well as the civil fraud case brought against Trump in New York by the state’s attorney general Letitia James.

The review, according to the memo, will be led by the Office of the Attorney General and supported by the Deputy Attorney General and other divisions of the department, and will “provide quarterly reports to the White House regarding the process of the review.”

The order further directs the working group to review any instances of “prosecutorial abuse” regarding the DOJ’s investigation into the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, as well as reports regarding whether the FBI politically targeted Catholics, and the DOJ’s prosecutions of anti-abortion protesters accused of impeding access to reproductive health clinics.

In May 2025, Ed Martin was added to the team as director of the Weaponization Working Group after the Republican-led Senate indicated it would not approve Martin as the US Attorney for DC.

 

Since then, Americans have believed that the Weaponization Working Group has been busy addressing the many corrupt and criminal actions involving the DOJ over the past decade, but this is not the case.  The team was never provided the resources (basically none) or the manpower to do their job.  There are 100,000 employees in the DOJ, and the leadership somehow couldn’t find any support for this team.

Today, the Working Group is not working.

Those who worked there were reassigned (Martin was moved to the pardons office).  Others left after realizing they were not getting support and were set up to fail.  It’s doubtful that President Trump knows this.

Last week, former DOJ employee Chad Mizelle said that the working group Bondi created didn’t work because the people there essentially weren’t “competent”:

As part of an article on Todd Blanche’s time as acting attorney general, CNN asked Chad Mizelle, Pam Bondi’s former chief of staff, why her “Weaponization Working Group”—which tried to investigate former government prosecutors Trump believed were politically motivated—never produced anything substantial.

“Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent,” Mizelle said. “Many career prosecutors are not interested in this kind of work. It’s a very small group of people.”

Presumably this was said without a whiff of irony. The quote is a perfect encapsulation of one of the few joys one can take from our present political situation: Trump’s staff is simply too dumb to carry out most of their assignments.

It’s likely that Mizelle knows this is not accurate.  CNN notes that Mizelle was Bondi’s former Chief of Staff, to give him some credibility, but his comments claiming the working group was essentially dumb, and his prior position at the DOJ indicate he’s not close to being a friend of MAGA.

 

According to the Conservative Treehouse, Chad Mizelle was a key player deep inside the Deep State. 

I have continued to point out that Chad Mizelle was Rod Rosenstein’s chief legal counsel during the first term of President Trump. As Rosenstein’s legal counsel, it was Chad Mizelle who literally wrote the “scope memos” that authorized the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate President Trump.

Mizelle also wrote the expanded scope memos for Mueller and Andrew Weissmann that permitted the targeting of Michael Flynn Jr, Michael Flynn, George Papadopolous, Paul Manafort and more. Chad Mizelle would have intimate knowledge of Rosenstein’s intent to hire Robert Mueller, before, during and after the Special Counsel was appointed.

Because of everything above, Chad Mizelle was always looked at with strong suspicion. There is no way to intellectually reconcile Chad Mizelle as a good faith actor knowing the intents and purposes of Robert Mueller. It just didn’t make sense.

(Note that Wikipedia conveniently omits Mizelle’s work with Rosenstein from his profile.)

When Mizelle left the DOJ:

Todd Blanche, deputy attorney general, said: “Chad’s tenure at the Department has been marked by exceptional leadership and dedication to the Department. He provided Attorney General Bondi and all of us with outstanding counsel, and his steady hand helped guide our work. Chad played a key role in advancing the President’s America First agenda here at the Department, and his efforts strengthened our mission to protect the American people.” (link)

Was that really true? What is true is that without Chad Mizelle, there would never have been a Robert Mueller investigation and expanded scope memos for Andrew Weissmann.

Note that Mizelle is now working at Homeland Security, which is likely another disaster in the making.

It’s not just that the Working Group is not working; it’s was under Deep State attack before it ever got going. 

In April 2023, Californian Chris Bish provided us with documentation indicating that Adam Schiff was allegedly committing mortgage and/or election fraud. Authorities in the Biden Administration refused to do anything, so Bish went to Congress.  Congress passed on it as well.

 

When others showed up in 2025 with accusations of mortgage fraud committed by other top Democrats like Letitia James, Bish shared her reporting again. It looked like Schiff was finally going to be indicted for wrongdoing.

Then, suddenly, reports surfaced that there was insufficient evidence to indict Schiff. However, Bish responded to say not to worry, as she was on her way to DC to discuss with government officials the mountains of evidence showing that Adam Schiff was committing mortgage and/or election fraud.

Bish ended up covering her own costs to travel to Washington, DC, with the intent to share what she had uncovered involving Schiff’s alleged mortgage and/or election crimes.

What Bish never expected was that the individuals she met didn’t want to know about Schiff’s crimes; they wanted to know about Bish’s conversations with the DOJ’s Ed Martin, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, and others.

Next, Deep State reporter Ken Dilanian reported that Ed Martin and Bill Pulte, who were investigating Adam Schiff’s mortgage crimes, were the ones being investigated by the DOJ’s Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche.

We discussed this situation, the investigation, and the new developments allegedly implemented by Todd Blanche on the War Room on Friday, November 21.

After our segment on the WarRoom, Chad Mizelle came to Todd Blanche’s rescue.

Why does anyone believe Mizelle based on his history with the Mueller gang?

A former member of the Weaponization Working Group told me that the group was not given the support it needed.  It was set up to fail.

This group failed because the DOJ is full of Deep State crooks.  The first thing that needed to be done was to clean house.  The DOJ has not been cleaned, and the results are frightening.