As Election Day moves ever closer and Donald Trump’s return to the White House becomes ever more possible, those on the Left seem to be coalescing within the second of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s Five Stages of Grief: namely, anger.

A case in point would be Reuters, the “news” organization that, long ago, while the Twin Towers were still smoldering in Lower Manhattan, scolded us that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Never forget. These days, Reuters has turned its attention to the nightmare scenario of a second Trump term — specifically, the evil plans being drawn up by Le Bête Orange for the Department of Justice.

The headline couldn’t be more ominous: “Donald Trump wants to control the Justice Department and FBI. His allies have a plan.” That plan, according to three crack Reuters reporters, goes like this:

Some of Donald Trump’s allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department’s independence and turn the nation’s top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters. If successful, the overhaul could represent one of the most consequential actions of a second Trump presidency given the Justice Department’s role in protecting democratic institutions and upholding the rule of law.

So, you see, corrupt and embittered hyper-partisan hacks like Attorney General Merrick Garland, who have weaponized Joe Biden’s Department of Justice against the Right and continually stonewalled Congress in its constitutionally prescribed oversight, are merely “protecting democratic institutions and upholding the rule of law.” (If your lying eyes deceive you, just check the DOJ’s Mission Statement and Values, especially the part about “Independence and Impartiality,” whereby Merrick and the boys work “each day to earn the public’s trust by following the facts and the law wherever they may lead, without prejudice or improper influence.”)

But Trump’s appointees? We don’t yet have any idea who they might be, but we already know for certain that their DOJ will be “an attack dog for conservative causes.”

Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey conducts a splendid takedown of Reuters, in which he notes three things: Team Biden’s ludicrous assertion of executive privilege regarding Special Counsel Robert Hur’s recorded interview with the president, as if Hur were some sort of presidential advisor rather than a public servant; this DOJ’s naked election interference via lawfare against Donald Trump; and the DOJ’s effort to cut a sweetheart deal for the president’s wastrel son. Morrissey goes on to list this administration’s war against peaceful pro-life activists and its turning of a blind eye toward pro-abortion violence and hooliganism, such as what we saw in the run-up to the landmark Dobbs decision. Morrissey continues:

We haven’t even touched on the Obama DoJ’s decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for far more serious mishandling of classified material than Trump committed, and as Secretary of State rather than president for the obvious purpose of obstructing congressional oversight. For that matter, we haven’t even mentioned the Obama administration’s attempt to use the DoJ and the intelligence community to perpetrate the Russia-collusion hoax against Trump in the middle of a presidential election, based on Hillary’s oppo-research smear campaign and nothing more.

As for the Trump plan, Reuters outlines our dystopian future in two parts: “First: flood the Justice Department with stalwart conservatives unlikely to say ‘no’ to controversial orders from the White House. Second: restructure the department so key decisions are concentrated in the hands of administration loyalists rather than career bureaucrats.”

Apparently, Reuters believes that “career bureaucrats” like Lois Lerner don’t have political predispositions and that they play it straight down the middle rather than coming into their roles with unspoken marching orders.

So when Reuters complains about an as-yet-unknown Trump Department of Justice while ignoring all the transgressions of the current DOJ, wethinks it doth protest too much.