White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has lashed out at suggestions that Donald Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department, saying he was simply holding people accountable for trying to jail him.

Two days after Trump publicly vented at Attorney General Pam Bondi for not charging his opponents soon enough, Leavitt was confronted during her latest press briefing about the retribution campaign he has embarked on since coming to office.

Asked if the president was breaking his Inauguration Day pledge—that “never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents”—the press secretary doubled down.

“It is not weaponizing the Department of Justice to demand accountability for those who weaponized the Department of Justice, and nobody knows what tha

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