“We’ve had hundreds and hundreds, if not, you know, closer to 1,000 threats," Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) told NBC News.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said the number of threats against her exploded after Donald Trump posted social media messages targeting Democrats on Thursday.
“We’ve had hundreds and hundreds, if not, you know, closer to 1,000 threats,” Slotkin, one of the six Democrats featured in a video that provoked Trump’s ire, told NBC News’s Ryan Nobles.
On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said they’d looked into security for the lawmakers who appeared in a video released earlier this week. In the video, Slotkin and five other Democratic veterans and former intelligence officers reminded service members that they could “refuse illegal orders” from the administration.
Trump would just pardon them anyway
Are there no state-level crimes to charge them with?
I’m not really sure how locality plays into that. If this all happened in DC then there is no state government to handle the situation. Perhaps the state governments of the state that either the congress member or the person threatening them is from could prosecute them but I’m honestly not sure.
Then we know their names.
That might be useful information if the left could muster the courage to do something more than talk shit about them on Twitter
“Anyway”? So it’s not worth following through on?
I mean, Trump controls all the departments that would be involved in that process so it’s not really a matter of worthiness at all. Criminals don’t investigate themselves with any kind of impartiality. But, if you were to somehow convince the DOJ to follow through and convict these people against Trump’s wishes he would just pardon them. That’s the reality of the situation. The ideal outcome isn’t anywhere near this picture.
Yes, but a pardon implies the process worked. And I think it’s important because sane people will understand the outcome.
But I guess, as others have pointed out, that’s not justice. So prosecution post the possibility of pardon does make sense.
What a fucked up situation.
If you can’t play the roll of party loyalist, you’re not working for the DOJ. I’m fine waiting until that is over to begin prosecutions