DeSantis hits Obama with brutal one-line response to DOJ politicization accusation: ‘Would like a word’

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded with a sharp one-liner after former President Barack Obama criticized the Trump administration for politicizing the Department of Justice. "The White House shouldn't be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants prosecuted," Obama said during an interview with CBS . "The awesome power of the state, you can't have a situation where whoever is in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies or reward their friends," he continued. In response, DeSantis wrote on X, "The Russia collusion hoax would like a word." OBAMA BRANDED 'CLASSLESS MORON' FOR AG JAB AT TRUMP AS 'WINGMAN' COMMENTS RESURFACE During an interview with CBS’ Stephen Colbert, Obama said that as president, "There were a couple [norms] that I followed, even though they weren’t law." "And we’re going to have to do some work to return to this basic norm, and we probably now have to codify it," he said. "The idea is that the attorney general is the people’s lawyer and not the president’s consigliere." Obama said the politicization of the DOJ poses an existential threat to the United States. "We can survive a lot, bad policy, funky elections, there’s a bunch of stuff that we can overcome, we can’t overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system." He said that he would like to see movement towards "restoring some sense of the Justice Department being independent in making judgments about specific cases and prosecutions." Under Obama, the FBI, which is a part of the DOJ, opened a counterintelligence investigation in 2016 to examine whether individuals associated with then-candidate Donald Trump had links to Russian officials and whether there was any coordination. TULSI GABBARD TORCHES 'COMPLICIT' LIBERAL MEDIA FOR IGNORING DNI FINDINGS ON RUSSIA PROBE The investigation continued during Trump’s first term and was led by special counsel Robert Mueller. It concluded there were "multiple lin…