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Mike Johnson: “They...turned the entire apparatus of our judicial system…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union

Published | Video Starts at 00:18

But what I have qualms with, Jake, is the total and utter weaponization of the Department of Justice in Comey was a primary person responsible for that. They, quite literally, for four years under the Biden administration, turned They...turned the entire apparatus of our judicial system against one person. His name's Donald Trump. There's never been a political figure in the history of the world who was so maligned and attacked, certainly not using the legal system of his country to go after him in the way that it did. (00:18–09:46)

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