Harry Litman on Trump’s Feud with U.S. Atty Over Letitia James: We’re at the ‘Dead Epicenter of a Prosecutor’s Duty’

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HAYES: “This is the reporting from The New York Times that that this has been a sort of battle internally, that attorney general. I mean, just to give you a sense of how far out we are here, Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general who runs the day to day operations operations, had privately defended Mr. Siebert. Sorry, I misspoke earlier. Siebert against officials, including William pulte, who we profiled last night, the director of the federal housing finance agency, who had urged he be fired and replaced the prosecutor who pushed the case forward, according to senior law enforcement official, meaning bondi and blanch are on the right side of the law apparently here. If this reporting is to be believed in the sources to be believed, and we’re so far off the rails that they are being overridden by apparently Trump and Bill Pulte,”

LITMAN: “For. No reason. For no reason. So Trump, who says I haven’t followed it very closely or tries to suggest. It’s, you know, democratic. Opposition and you’re right about what polk has to say. So again. Here, we’re. Just at the. Dead epicenter of a of an prosecutor’s duty. So it’s why they’re being overruled. And that. The. Fact that. They are. This is. No sort of. Fairly serious thing. This is the. Absolute biggest insult. You could lay on an office. And I don’t know what goes forward. Now with. That office, with other offices around the. Country. With courts, with people are. Indicted on close calls. And you. Have to. Trust that the. DoJ has done it cleanly. You’re going to. See lots of motions all over the country. About. Trump doesn’t like him. That must be the reason. But again. The basics of what. They’re. Doing here are is just anathema. To a. Functioning prosecutorial system.”