The same federal tools used to target Trump supporters, raid homes, and open investigations over political speech are still sitting there—untouched, unreformed, and ready for the next Democratic administration.
Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview that Republicans lost the midterms because they failed to deliver results on the issues that mattered to voters and allowed the Senate to kill their agenda.
“We didn’t inspire people, and the Senate torpedoed any chance that we had,” Burlison said.
He had pushed bills on health care, housing, and affordability — measures to expand health savings accounts, move the system toward free-market competition, and let first-time homebuyers receive a down payment from the seller. None of them advanced.
“All of those things were completely jettisoned when the Senate failed to do anything, including SAVE America,” Burlison said. “When you have high gas prices, when you have high grocery prices, and this Congress didn’t give an answer to any of that stuff, we didn’t inspire anybody.”
Burlison said he watched the same pattern that has defined previous Republican majorities play out in real time.
“I just had a front row seat to watch this failure theater once again,” he said. “It wasn’t because of my lack of trying. I just feel like the Senate really failed to allow us to do anything.”
That failure carries consequences beyond legislation. Trump supporters who lived through the Biden years understand what that means.
Longtime Trump advisor Michael Caputo, whose private records were secretly collected by the Biden-era FBI, told investigative reporter Catherine Herridge the targeting never truly ended.
NEW: If the Democrats Win Midterms, Weaponization Will Increase 10 Fold, Says Long Time Trump Advisor @MichaelRCaputo Whose Records Were Secretly Collected By the Biden FBI
FBI Director Patel recently confirmed his records were secretly collected, and those of now White House Chief of Staff @SusieWiles. At the time, they were private citizens.
“It hasn’t stopped yet. It’s just been hidden. I think it’ll be out in the open. We hear it from every single one of these operatives that they’re going todo it. It will begin immediately.”
@thelatmg @latimesstudios_
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) March 20, 2026
“It hasn’t stopped yet. It’s just been hidden,” Caputo said. “I think it’ll be out in the open. We hear it from every single one of these operatives that they’re going to do it. It will begin immediately.”
If Democrats regain power, Caputo warned, “weaponization will increase 10 fold.”
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., put the strategy in plain language at the University of Chicago. She said she wants “signature cases” against people who “enabled” President Trump, cases designed to scare young conservatives away from ever serving in a Republican administration.
WTF?! Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) just announced her plan is mass political persecution of Trump allies to FRIGHTEN young conservatives away from getting involved with him
“I want young people to say, should I go work for the Trump admin? […] I want them to be like, lord, that might buy myself a TON of PROBLEMS I don’t want. Let me avoid participating.”
She just says it plainly
Slotkin wants a list of “signature cases” against Trump officials, and she named Kristi Noem, Doug Burgum, and Jeanine Pirro
All this from the same party that spent four years screaming about “retribution” and “weaponization!”
VOTE RED AT ALL COSTS. https://t.co/TPnuMIfd1N
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 17, 2026
“I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity,’” Slotkin said. “I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message sent.”
Asked whether the absence of DOJ reform leaves the door open for further weaponization, Burlison answered without hesitation.
“Absolutely,” he said. “It’s because Republicans play it safe. Whenever we’re elected, we let the moderates in the difficult districts dictate what the agenda is going to be, and we always play it safe. Leadership always lets them determine the priority. And as a result, we never do the bold things that we need to be doing.”
Democrats have already said they will make examples of those who worked for Trump. Republicans held the White House, the House, and the Senate, and still left the machine fully operational.
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