Ex-US attorney goes off on 'nasty' Trump DOJ official for selling 'his soul for power'

Reacting to the chaos created by Donald Trump's second in command at the Department of Justice this week that led to well-regarded prosecutors resigning to avoid dropping corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former U.S. attorney slammed him on MSNBC.

Appearing on "The Weekend," Kristy Greenberg, former deputy chief of the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York, lashed out at Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, for how he has conducted himself at Trump's direction.

Applauding the prosecutors who resigned rather than bend to Bove's will, Greenberg told the hosts, "They took the hard road, but they did the right thing and they spoke truth to power."

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"And then you have the opposite," she continued. "You have someone like Emil who really sold his soul for power. That's just plainly what happened here. His memos are nasty, they're brash, they're disingenuous."

"He kind of changes his reasoning throughout, you know, from memo to memo and they're just, you know, they're just, not what you would be accustomed to seeing from a former prosecutor and certainly not somebody who is in DOJ leadership."

"It's extremely disappointing to see, but I'm glad that SDNY stepped up. And I think we'll just have to see now what Judge [Dale] Ho does in the Southern District of New York. I hope he has a hearing, and I hope he holds their feet to the fire and asks really tough questions about why this move would be in the interests of justice."

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