Biden Weaponized Law Enforcement Against the Faithful
Bombshell new revelations about the DOJ targeting believers...
Even the initial story about the FBI targeting Catholics for suspicion and surveillance was bad enough. In December 2023, the House Judiciary Committee published a detailed report about how the FBI specifically identified traditional Catholics as potential domestic terror threats.
The House report revealed the shocking finding that the Richmond, Virginia, office of the FBI suspected traditional Catholics “as violent extremists and proposed opportunities for the FBI to infiltrate Catholic churches as a form of ‘threat mitigation.’”
In sworn testimony before the U.S. Senate, former FBI Director Christopher Wray was challenged by Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri: “Now we know that, in fact, FBI agents did approach a priest and a choir director to ask them to inform on parishioners.” Despite this serious allegation, Wray denied a wider FBI initiative and blamed a localized mistake in Richmond.
Well … new information reveals that, at best, FBI Director Wray was playing fast and loose with the truth. At worst, the then-sitting chief law enforcement investigator of America committed perjury when he dishonestly stated that the memo was “a single product by a single field office.” Oh, all while completely maligning the largest denomination of Christian believers in the United States.
But, alas, the sad story of the FBI targeting Catholics does not end in 2023. New information uncovered by Sen. Charles Grassley’s committee reveals that the so-called “Richmond memo” was more like a nationwide all-points-bulletin from FBI brass, informing legions of agents to suspect and investigate faithful parishioners across the land.
As CatholicVote describes, “the FBI’s anti-Catholic Richmond memo was distributed to more than 1,000 employees in FBI field offices across the country.” Sen. Grassley’s press release states that a whistleblower “produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology and relied on information from the radical far-left Southern Poverty Law Center” to target Catholics.
Amazingly, such harsh anti-Catholic actions formed a key policy agenda for Joe Biden, a politician who constantly trumpeted his Catholic bona fides and bragged about the rosary he carries in his pocket. Of course, those pronouncements did not stop him from targeting the Little Sisters of the Poor for brutal Department of Justice intimidation when he was vice president. Nor did Joe’s faith restrain him as president, when he awarded America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to the late Cecile Richardson, one of the most prolific abortion providers in U.S. history.
Unfortunately, Biden’s anti-Catholic actions follow a tragic trend of recent decades for Democrats, once the proud home to generations of Catholic voters across America.
In fact, Biden’s eventual vice president, Kamala Harris, engaged in brazen anti-Catholic bigotry as a U.S. senator in 2018. Harris tried to derail the judicial nomination of Brian Buescher simply because the district court nominee dared to belong to the Catholic fraternal charity organization, the Knights of Columbus. I wrote about that prejudice – an unconstitutional religious litmus test – in a December 26, 2018, opinion piece for RealClearPolitics.
No wonder that during the 2024 presidential race, then-Sen. JD Vance called the Biden-Harris White House “the most anti-Catholic administration in living memory.”
Which brings us back to the present day and these newfound facts about the breadth and scope of the anti-Catholicism of Biden’s FBI. This targeting fits within a larger context of the completely unacceptable politicized weaponization of federal law enforcement by people like Biden, Harris, Wray, and former Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Sen. Grassley makes it clear that he believes Wray lied under oath. If that allegation is correct, then the Trump-Vance DOJ must charge Wray.
In addition, this issue carries great political peril for Democrats and big continued rewards for Republicans. Historically, Catholics decide national elections. For over half a century, the Catholic vote has determined the winner in every election but one (choosing Al Gore over George W. Bush in 2000). In 2024 Trump rolled up an incredible +11% margin among Catholics nationwide, a giant improvement over his tie among Catholics in 2020. In fact, Trump would not have won the popular vote – surprising every “expert” – without his dominant performance among Catholics.
So, let’s get to the truth, punish the evildoers, and reap the political spoils as well.
Steve Cortes is president of the League of American Workers, a populist right pro-laborer advocacy group, and senior political advisor to CatholicVote. He is a former senior advisor to President Trump and JD Vance, and a former commentator for Fox News and CNN.
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Going after Christopher Wray is probably a little more than Pam Bondi is up for. She has, however, talked about going after "anyone who spit on police" during the L. A. riots [a local prosecution job if ever there were one]. But let's assume Pam is up for one Big Case. Should it be against Wray? Or should it be against the foreign billionaire who is profiting from the turmoil he's subsidizing? A RICO case against this individual would involve tracing the earnings he's making off the crippling of the U. S economy...and the seizure of those profits..... likely tens and tens of billions of dollars. Maybe that would constitute a better use of Pam's time in office ---since, let's face it, the most we're gonna get outta her is one Big Case [and lots & lots of filings against the low hanging fruit ---drug dealers and street thugs]......