Charlie Kirk: Trump can tell AG Pam Bondi “stop working on this case and start working on that case”
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From the February 6, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): The executive branch is more powerful than ever, yet the president is weaker. This is what the left has engineered — is they've engineered this shadow fourth branch of a permanent standing army that doesn't have to listen to a president. And we are bringing the constitutional issue front and center. That's what this is all about. Don't look at the trees, look at the forest. Don't look at the little, oh, you know, Elon running around with a bunch of engineers. No. No. What Elon is doing with the President Trump's blessing is forcing the most consequential high stakes question of who is in charge that we have seen over the last one hundred years. This is all an outgrowth of Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 2025. It's been 112 years. And as specified in the U.S. Constitution, the president is in charge of the bureaucracy. Section one of article two, the executive power shall be vested in a president of The United States of America. Do you see that? That's it. It does not say the executive power shall be vested in an FBI director or in the USAID rank-and-file. It doesn't say that the executive power shall be vested in an oligarchy.
If you zoom out and you ignore all the noise and all the chatter, you are witnessing a return to the framers' vision for this country. It's gonna be a major fight because disassembling and deconstructing the administrative state, that is the life force of all statists. It is the life force of Liz Cheney, of Nancy Pelosi, of Adam Kinzinger. They live off of the corrupt statist leviathan that has grown to trillions of dollars of scale. It is the largest thing ever to exist in the history of Western civilization is the US government.
So what Article II is all about is the president gets to decide who the department who leads the Department of Justice. The attorney general reports directly to the president. The FBI director reports directly to the president. The president can, if he wishes — President Trump right now, if he wishes, could call Pam Bondi and say, I wanna see every single case you're working on. The president could even say, stop working on this case and start working on that case. And if that makes you a little uncomfortable, that means you are victim to the hypnosis that the DOJ and the FBI are their own chartered portion of government. They are not. No different than president Trump can tell Marco Rubio to go down to Nicaragua, President Donald Trump can tell USAID, stop sending money there. But all of the outpour, all the rancor that you are seeing is because they don't actually want the representative of the people to have that kind of power because they don't trust the people. That's the core issue is that they don't trust the wisdom of elections to be played out in full during a presidential term. They say it's democracy. It's actually technocratic oligarchy.