Targeted Parents Rebuild Trust with Trump DOJ
Parents Demanding Justice Alliance (PDJA) Founding Member, Kelly John Walker says relations with the Trump administration and the Department of Justice appear to be improving following months of tension and distrust, even as targeted school parents across the nation remain in urgent need of relief.
In a detailed communication sent to administration officials, Walker described a January 23 meeting with a Senior Official under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, as deeply damaging for families already traumatized by the Biden-Garland DOJ’s weaponization campaign against dissenting parents.
“It gave us the impression that the DOJ hadn’t changed in its adversarial posture toward the targeted parent community,” Walker said. “That terrified people who’d been previously hunted down and stigmatized for political retribution and lawfare.”
Despite the controversy surrounding the meeting, Walker says communication with the administration has since improved substantially, with renewed communication between PDJA and DOJ officials.
Walker also praised President Donald Trump for what he described as a compassionate effort to provide restitution for victims of political weaponization.
“I hope you’ll share this directly with President Trump,” Walker expressed. “His kindness and generosity in offering up his own settlement to help the victims of weaponization has made a seismic positive impact.”
According to Walker, the administration’s acknowledgment of targeted parents has already helped him restore confidence among disaffected conservative voters who previously felt abandoned after years of political persecution.
Walker specifically pointed to an apology offered by Blanche on behalf of the Federal Government as part of the broader settlement framework, calling it “the single most significant factor” for his family.
“We need restitution to restore our lives, but we need the apology to restore our dignity,” Walker said.
Walker argued that targeted parents should receive “triage priority” because, unlike many other defendants, the Garland DOJ allegedly failed to identify any legitimate federal basis for prosecution against parents while still deploying federal resources against them.
“Garland failed to find the ‘federal hook’ he sought to justify federal prosecution of parents; yet the Biden DOJ weaponized the federal government against us anyway, including directing the FBI to apply terrorist threat tags to dissenting parents and colluding with the NSBA and local authorities to carry out his retribution,” Walker said.
“That, and the group’s comparatively small size—our dossier includes parents from every party—makes rectifying our situation less challenging.”
Though the “domestic terrorist” narrative surrounding school parents ultimately collapsed, Walker said the downstream reputational, financial, and emotional consequences devastated families nationwide.
Walker continues to advocate for a public White House ceremony honoring targeted parents, as well as consideration of an executive order proposal previously submitted to administration officials.
He also argued that the experiences of targeted parents undermine critics’ claims that proposed restitution efforts amount to a “J6 slush fund,” noting that many parents targeted during the school board controversies were never federally charged and committed no crimes.
“No one can credibly label these parents as ‘felons and criminals’ without incurring the the condemnation of every major parenting group in the land,” Walker wrote. “Attempts to block this restitution over the J6 controversy are disingenuous and unjust.”
Despite past frustrations, Walker emphasized that his goal has never been confrontation with the Trump administration.
“It’s never been our intent to ‘go to war’ with President Trump’s DOJ,” Walker said. “We anticipated finally having someone to honor and restore us for standing in the gap. We had a setback, but the administration is addressing it, true to its mandate to restore the department’s trust and credibility.”
“Many targeted parents now believe President Trump genuinely cares about their plight and remain hopeful that meaningful restitution, public acknowledgment, and restoration may finally be within reach.”
“We are cautiously optimistic,” Walker said, “and for the first time in years, we are daring to hope that the American Dream can be restored to our families and our lives.”
Kelly John Walker is an American statesman, senior writer, author, and entrepreneur. He is a Creative Director and Founder of FreedomTalk Magazine, co-founder of Parents Demanding Justice Alliance, and co-founder of The People’s Tribune Council. Kelly’s work has been published in The Washington Times, Gateway Pundit, The Epoch Times, Newsmax, Townhall, Law Enforcement Today, and more. He’s a frequent guest on leading conservative newscasts and podcasts.
With respect to this, fire each and every DOJ employee who was "just following orders."
Should have been done on Day One.
That's been going on since President Trump's first day in office.
It's true.
nope… bondi was put in to delay and destroy evidence.
swamp is still there. still operating.
Agreed. That needs to be done.
That would be a good start. Then prosecute them for breaking the law.
Executive Orders do nothing to solve our problems.
America is in dire need of a CW, otherwise we will slowly walk off the plank
Executive orders get the ball rolling while dimokrauts fight against everything Trump. Eventually, SCOTUS will have to rule on it. That's how to address a do-nothing congress and get things done.
I'm hoping and praying that Cassidy and Cornyn will get Thune's attention. I've also texted and emailed Thune to start preparing for his retirement, in 2 years.
what were the parents targeted for?
Speaking out against porn books in school libraries, boys in girls' bathrooms and sports, teachers urging kids to proclaim themselves trans while keeping it secret from parents, school assignments about trannnsing and white privilege as the subjects of written classroom assignments, protesting special school events for black and brown students that specifically exclude white and Jewish students, giving students a pass to join ANTIFirstAmendment and BurnLootMurder violent protests during school hours without parental consent.
I can name more if you need it.
Excellent recall Cnynwymyn
They were attacked and arrested at school board meetings for pushing back on liberal policies. They didnt want schools allowing men in womens restrooms and the entire progressive movement.
The Obama/ Biden Admin was then releasing the DOJ on them
For speaking at School Board meetings, and also for going to a school and saying they didn't like boys going into their daughter's restroom's, and anything else Merrick Garland didn't like.
Speaking out at the school board meetings.
Biden-Garland DOJ’s weaponization campaign against dissenting parents. that should be the name of the jail those two belong in.
Exactly. I suspect DOJ bad actors continue protecting them.
Hmmm…
January 23rd, wasn't Pam Bondi in charge of the DOJ?
Yes. And it was at this meeting I learned Ed Martin had been removed from the Weaponization Working Group. I still have questions, but there's been some progress at least.
Until the criminals in our government who were RESPONSIBLE for the crimes against these people, are arrested, prosecuted, and PUNISHED (including having assets seized for compensation), NOTHING MATTERS. The DOJ will be used against ALL of us the minute Trump is upset at the nation turning against him for NOT DOING WHAT HE PROMISED.
Trump does not care about you, the parents, the midterms or anything other than himself and making billions from the presidency.
Wow!!!!!
THIS story appears to have soiled a lot of trolls' diapers. BLOCK THIS Iw2tpyfb SH!T TOO.
When is the public going to understand that restitution for J6ers is not a "slush fund"? The endless ignorance about what really happened on J6 needs to end. As much as these parents were targeted and harmed by the DOJ, the J6ers endured far greater injustices.
When is the public going to understand that restitution for J6ers is not a "slush fund"? The endless ignorance about what really happened on J6 needs to end. As much as these parents were targeted and harmed by the DOJ, the J6ers endured far greater injustices.
The problem is, schools everywhere are still going forward pushing the democrats' vile porn in libraries, trans issues, hiding their active manipulation of children into their sick portfolio of debauchery, anti-Christian works, etc., primarily because threats of pulling their funding (from the original EO) have not been followed through?
do you have kid in school????
dc is a COMMUNIST troll. BLOCK IT.
That is what was/is so vile and disgusting about this. The DemonRAT vermin call it "preventing hate" to show a child as young as EIGHT graphic sexual position depictions of same-sex boys or girls. And back under Bidiot's DOJ and FIB, concerned parents who dared speak out at school district hearings about it were visited by the Feds.
Finally, when enough citizens stood up and pushed to get those nasty sick vile books OUT of public schools, the leftscum DemonRAT vermin cried and said it was nothing more than a modern Gestapo book burning. Funny how the leftscum always trot out Nazi references when they are the real Nazis by definition and practices alone.
Utter BS
pbs is yet another America hating communist troll, block it too.
I hate it when photo-ops of signings are done at that tiny child's desk. That's a Biden move.
I always want to see Trump at the Resolute Desk.
That's not the Oval Office. Where are they?
Where do these people, and their kind of thinking come from?