Judicial Watch founder Tom Fitton joined Steve Bannon on The War Room Monday to discuss the dire situation at the Department of Justice and FBI.
Fitton contends the FBI and DOJ are too compromised and conflicted to adequately run an investigation into their own organizations.
Most American conservatives would agree with that statement.
What Tom Fitton says must happen is that President Trump, as chief executive magistrate, should run an investigation into the FBI and DOJ’s corrupt and criminal actions over the past eight years in running their coup against Trump and persecuting his top supporters.
This is not a new idea. According to Fitton, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Jefferson, and Adams famously managed federal prosecutions while president.
Tom Fitton: The President was referred to as the Chief Executive Magistrate. So there’s no doubt under the Constitution, the powers of the President require the laws be faithfully executed. Constitution and custom and tradition. Well, yes, on top of that. Well, the custom and tradition flows from the obvious nature of his job as chief executive. Yes. And so what does that mean in the modern era? Well, in theory, it means President Trump could run the trial in any prosecution. He’d be in there playing prosecutor if he so chose.
Steve Bannon: …Give me that again, sir.
Tom Fitton: The President could conduct the prosecution, quite literally conduct the prosecution. Now, there may be some rules related to the court rules about lawyers being involved in such. But the point is, he can run the prosecution, request an investigation, demand a report back. This is what I think he should do. We talked about this before. He should set up a special prosecutor separate in part from the FBI and the Justice Department… They’re overwhelmed and conflicted. Institutionally, they’re conflicted. Yes. The FBI guys aren’t going to take out the FBI. There aren’t enough DOJ, good people in DOJ to do an investigation.
Steve Bannon: Hold on. He appoints a special prosecutor, and that special prosecutor does not report to the attorney general, reports to him?
Tom Fitton: That’s right. An independent unit, an independent prosecutorial unit, investigative unit. He can have it staffed with individuals from other law enforcement agencies in the federal government or contract with private experts and private entities to do investigations and any criminal investigation or ultimately prosecution. And he can sign off. He can be as detail-oriented as he wants in terms of signing off on depositions, subpoenas, leads, what is pursued, what isn’t…