"The old saying, 'what comes around goes around'," said Blumenthal. "You know, today it's a Republican president, but degrading the democracy and ruining, literally perverting, the great ethos and tradition of the Department of Justice, where I was in awe when I walked through those halls as a federal prosecutor." "The old saying, 'what comes around goes around'," said Blumenthal. "You know, today it's a Republican president, but degrading the democracy and ruining, literally perverting, the great ethos and tradition of the Department of Justice, where I was in awe when I walked through those halls as a federal prosecutor."