'He's going to put you and I in a cell': MSNBC lawyer sounds alarm on Trump and J.D. Vance

Former President Donald Trump and his allies are truly gearing up to silence their political critics, attorney and MSNBC commentator Katie Phang warned on Friday evening.

This comes after pro-Trump Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) sent a letter to the Justice Department demanding a criminal investigation of Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan for writing an article about the risk of a Trump dictatorship — which he claimed was a tongue-in-cheek way of protesting the absurdity of Trump facing deprivation of rights charges for the plot to overturn the 2020 election.

"You have a Republican senator saying go after Kagan, and [Attorney General] Merrick Garland's not listening to J.D. Vance," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "If it is a Trump-appointed AG, the story is then very different."

"Absolutely," said Phang. "We saw what happened with Bill Barr. We've seen what can happen when you have somebody in a position like the attorney general, and there was a piece recently that just came out within the last 24 hours, talking about people that might be the attorney general. One name prominently: Jeffrey Clark. How do we know that name? ... he's been indicted, right? He's been charged criminally, for helping the insurrection, for helping overturn the results, lawfully, of an election."

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"The problem we have here is J.D. Vance, senator, United States senator ... he's a Yale-educated lawyer," said Phang, adding that it's her own alma mater and they don't approve of him. "A Yale-educated lawyer thinking tongue-in-cheek this is funny? This is not funny. Why? Because this is something that Donald Trump said himself he was going to do. He put on Truth Social. He will put you and I in a cell if he wins. He's going to go after his critics. That's a dictator by definition. I'm going to silence my critics, I'm going to put them in jail, I'm going to get them prosecuted. I'm going to take the people that have something negative to say about me, that want to speak truth to power, and I'm going to silence them in ways that they've never seen."

This would not even be new, noted Phang.

"What about people that were anti-Trump during the Trump administration?" she said. "They had the same thing happen to them. This is truly that moment ... if someone shows who they are, believe them. I don't know why people are so casual about this. I don't know why people pooh-pooh it when we cover it. I don't know why people don't care more, because they need to. This is very serious. The fact that J.D. Vance is now echoing and parroting what Donald Trump says, should make all of us concerned."

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