Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that President Donald Trump had already put the country into a “constitutional crisis.”
Schiff said, “When Donald Trump is gone and there’s a Democratic president I can’t imagine they’re going to want to keep on someone as destructive as Kash Patel. But I couldn’t imagine, frankly, that we would be in this place to begin with. So we’re in uncharted waters. We’ve had a debate about what level of constitutional crisis we’re in, and frankly, I think we’re already there. And yes, it can get worse if they just start ignoring court opinions.”
He added, “But when you have someone who is essentially the president’s Roy Cohn, his hatchet man, now controlling the premier law enforcement agency, when you’ve got Pam Bondi, an election denier, as the attorney general, when you got Emil Bove insisting on the firing of prosecutors in New York because they don’t want to dismiss an a corruption case against the mayor for the reason that the mayor is helping the president with his immigration policy. That’s the argument of the Justice Department. We saw just how dangerously absurd that argument is today, when Emil Bove was making the point that, yes, this can go beyond this. Mayor in New York, basically, they can decide to pursue and not pursue any criminal case depending on whether an elected official is helping their agenda.”
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