A former DOJ pardon attorney on Saturday highlighted a Donald Trump official's "absolutely chilling" move that she said shook her to her core.
DOJ ex-insider Liz Oyer appeared on MS NOW over the weekend, where she was asked about a recent "joke" Trump made about cancelling the midterm elections, an electoral contest that analysts suggest the GOP is likely to lose.
"What'shappening here is they say something, he sayssomething, they see how itlands. And if it doesn't landwell, they say, oh, it was ajoke," she said. "And we're seeing so manyoutrageous, unbelievable thingsbeing said by Trump and thepeople around him that weshould be able to takeseriously what they say. And weshouldn't have to guess. Arethey going to say later it wasa joke?"
She then went on to list an example that shocked her.
"One of the things thatwas said this week that Ithought was just absolutelychilling, shook me to my core,was to see Todd Blanche tweetthat he believes the governorand the mayor of Minneapolisare engaged in terrorism," she then added. "Andit's just another example ofthese extreme statements. Imean, terrorism, because theyare speaking up againstoverreach by ICE. And Blanchehas now said that they are thetargets of an investigation bythe Justice Department ratherthan the person who killed thiswoman, Renee Good."