Peter Navarro didn’t mince words in a recent Roundtable appearance, warning that the leadership of the FBI has been “weaponized” and urging Republicans to accelerate subpoenas now — before Democrats have any chance to reclaim control and bury the truth. He argued bluntly that if conservatives wait, the evidence and the witnesses will be swept away by a politicized bureaucracy that already treats political opponents like enemies of the state.
That warning isn’t empty rhetoric. Senator Chuck Grassley’s release of internal FBI emails laid bare jubilant exchanges among bureau officials as they prepared Navarro’s indictment, including messages that plainly celebrated the prospect of charging a Trump adviser. Those documents deserve contempt: every American should be alarmed when law-enforcement professionals treat prosecutions like partisan scoring instead of serious justice.
Navarro’s own ordeal puts meat on the bones of his charge. He was prosecuted, convicted of contempt, and served four months behind bars for refusing to comply with the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoenas — a punishment many conservatives view as selective enforcement and a warning shot to anyone who stands with the former president. The spectacle of leg irons and a perp walk for a White House aide eroded faith in an institution that’s supposed to be blind and equal in its justice.
The Justice Department’s recent flip-flops only reinforce Navarro’s point: legal positions change with political winds, and today’s prosecutor can be tomorrow’s political weapon. When the DOJ publicly shifts course on defending convictions tied to partisan probes, it proves that relying on institutional restraint is a naive fantasy — Republicans must move fast to issue subpoenas, preserve documents, and lock down testimony while they still can.
This is not revenge politics; it is defensive patriotism. If federal law enforcement was used as a cudgel against one side of the political aisle, then oversight must be immediate, aggressive, and uncompromising. Republicans who care about the Constitution should view subpoenas not as malicious tit-for-tat, but as the only tool left to restore balance and hold career apparatchiks accountable for political abuses.
Conservatives have long argued that institutions become dangerous when they shed their impartiality. Today those warnings are no longer theoretical: they are practical and urgent. If we love liberty — and if we love our country — we do not sit idly by while bureaucrats and partisan prosecutors rewrite the rules to target political enemies and protect political allies.
Patriots must demand hearings, document releases, and immediate answers from FBI leadership; they must subpoena officials, depose them under oath, and make their actions a matter of public record. Delay hands the deep state the one thing it needs to bury the truth: time. Hardworking Americans deserve institutions that serve the rule of law, not the ambitions of a political class.
