Ex-corruption prosecutor predicts 'walking conflict of interest' Matt Whitaker will be stopped from doing anything by the DOJ ethics staff
Former federal public corruption prosecutor and Georgetown Law professor Paul Butler predicted that the Department of Justice would require acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to recuse himself from multiple federal prosecutions.
MSNBC anchor Joy Reid began the segment by noting that the Federal Bureau of Investigations is looking into a Florida company where Whitaker was an advisory-board member.
"How can it be the new acting Attorney General of the United States is also being investigated by the FBI?" Reid asked.
"So Joy, yeah, this guy Matthew Whitaker -- he's a walking conflict of interest," Butler observed.
"I'm confident that not only will the professional ethics officers at the Department of Justice say that he cannot supervise the FBI investigation that is related to his own conduct, he also cannot supervise the Russia investigation, because he has expressed very strong opinions on that," Butler predicted.
The law professor also took the opportunity to mock Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III with a "bye Felicia" for his time as Attorney General.
"In two years, Sessions took us back 20 years on issues like civil rights, criminal justice reform and separation of church and state," Butler argued. "The only thing that he did that showed integrity, was to recuse himself from the Russian investigation, and that act of integrity is what got him fired."
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