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An attorney for Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) warned Attorney General Todd Blanche Monday to abandon any thoughts of investigating the senator over a speech she gave encouraging young people to think twice before working for President Donald Trump.
Trump ordered Slotkin be investigated after she told an audience at the University of Chicago last week, “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration?’ … 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.”
Trump took that as a threat against young Republicans, writing on Truth Social, “The Senator from Michigan, Elissa Slotkin, is saying that she is going to go after all young people that believe in Republican Values, and that give even the slightest inclination to be a Republican.”
“By copy of this statement, I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately!” Trump wrote.
Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, who’s representing Slotkin, wrote in an open letter to Blanche that following Trump’s order would be just “another frivolous investigation at the taxpayers’ expense.”
Slotkin’s comments were “entirely lawful” and protected by the First Amendment as well as the “speech and debate” clause of the Constitution, Bharara wrote, adding, it “should not be hard to make clear that we do not live in an authoritarian regime where mere criticism of the powerful can land anyone in legal peril and possibly prison.”
“That requires a clear and public statement confirming that the Department will not pursue this investigation against Senator Slotkin,” he wrote.
When asked for comment, a DOJ spokesperson told NBC News, “Sen. Slotkin said publicly that the prospect of future investigations should deter young people from joining this administration. The Department believes public service should not be met with threats of retribution, and this Department is committed to ending the weaponization of government. We follow the facts and the law.”
Trump’s demand came less than a year since the administration pursued Slotkin and five other Democratic members of Congress over a video that soldiers and intelligence officers were under no obligation to follow “illegal orders.” A grand jury failed to indict the lawmakers.
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