Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman bashed the Department of Justice’s investigation into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), predicting it will be “a complete and utter non-starter.”
“It’s gotten worse in the last week or two before he was doing tawdry, petty, nasty personal recrimination,” Litman said Friday on MS Now’s “All In With Chris Hayes.” “Now, on the losing side of policy battles, he’s trying to bring to bear the blunderbuss of the federal prosecutorial power to win battles he’s otherwise losing.”
The Trump administration has pushed the DOJ to target many of the president’s critics and opponents during its second term, including former Trump admin national security adviser John Bolton and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who was indicted last week.
“He’s getting beat in Minneapolis, he’s trying to change the interest rates of the Fed, and he can’t do that,” Litman said. “And then, is when he’s coming in with these criminal charges, that’s a whole different level of outrage, it seems to me, because it tries to corruptly play dirty with the actual political process that he is otherwise losing.”
Frey and Walz are the president’s newest targets, accused by the DOJ of impeding federal immigration enforcement through public statements, which have ramped up since Renee Nicole Good’s killing by an ICE officer.
