“This is an egregious violation, a travesty of justice”: Mike Johnson defends decision to attend Trump criminal trial.

The DOJ has been stonewalling some of y'all's investigations, y'all have the H.E.R. Garland markup, content markup thing for the H.E.R. and refusing to do that. The DOJ is also stonewalling the House Ethics Committee and not giving over any records for Dougherty and Matt Gaetz and their investigation. Do you think that the DOJ should be giving over those records that House Ethics is requesting? I haven't paid any attention to that at all. I can tell you that the Department of Justice has clearly been politicized. Some of us consider this actually to be a weaponized DOJ, and Merrick Garland is in charge. He is the Attorney General at the top, and I think that they have used our system of justice against political opponents, of course, the most prominent of which is Donald J. Trump. I was with him yesterday in Manhattan, and many in the press have asked, why did you go there? Because I'm a former litigator. I'm an attorney. This is an egregious violation, a travesty of justice. They are using the judicial system for political purposes, and this is something the framers warned us against.