Former prosecutor turned U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) hammered Donald Trump's Department of Justice for forcing a U.S. attorney to resign rather than drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McCaskill was asked about the resignation letter written by then-acting U.S Attorney Danielle Sassoon to AG Pam Bondi and the blistering response that Sassoon received from Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove.
McCaskill responded by flagging what she felt was an alarming part of the exchange.
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Speaking with co-host Mika Brzezinski, she explained, "Prosecutors across the country are tremendously proud of this woman. I think that the cold bucket of water that was dumped on prosecutors all across the country, state, local, federal was the letter from Bove instructing her to dismiss the case."
"And here's what about that letter was so alarming," she continued. "Typically, Mika, there's only two reasons that a case would be dismissed after filing, and those are based on either the soundness of the legal arguments in terms of where the facts apply to the law, or secondly the quality and quantity of the evidence –– there has to be a problem with one of those two for a case to be dismissed ethically."
"This guy Bove admitted in his letter they had not considered either one of those things –– that's called political corruption," she added. "That's called using politics to influence the application of a law in this country, and it was startling when I read that letter because, you know, having been in the position to make terribly hard decisions about charging someone you have to be guided by the law and the evidence and not all of this BS that the Trump Justice Department is using."
"I mean the greatest city in the world deserves better than Eric Adams," the former senator added.
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