The Department of Justice is facing an apocalyptic threat from President Donald Trump, according to a conservative columnist.

Presidents always pose a threat to the department's political independence, but New York Times columnist David French warned that Trump has already remade the DOJ in his own vengeful imagine.

"The combination of the president’s authority over the attorney general and his pardon power (a vestige of royal authority that sneaked into our Constitution) means that an unscrupulous president can create a two-tiered system of justice," French wrote. "He can provide pardons for his friends and allies and pursue his enemies with abandon."

A president can bring to life the saying, "For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law," and French said that Trump has done just that to a degree never seen before.

"Presidents of different parties have different enforcement priorities — one president may want to crack down more on drugs, another on gun crime — but the priorities aren’t supposed to be partisan," he wrote. "In other words, there isn’t one standard for Democratic drug dealers and another for Republican ones, or one standard for Republicans who commit gun crimes and another for Democrats."

However, the law governs what the department can and cannot do, and DOJ officials have established guidance to ensure those principles are preserved, but French said Trump has brushed aside most of those to pursue his political agenda.

"We are watching Donald Trump break the Department of Justice right before our eyes," he wrote. "It was never a perfect institution. It has violated its own standards many times over many decades."

"The atomic bomb has detonated, and only the American people can ultimately pick up the pieces and repair our Republic," French added. "But until a decisive number of Americans reject the man and his movement, he will continue to wreck American justice, and not even the Constitution can stand in his way."