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's happening here is they say something, he says something, they see how it lands. And if it doesn't land well, they say, oh, it was a joke," she said. "And we're seeing so many outrageous, unbelievable things being said by Trump and the people around him that we should be able to take seriously what they say. And we shouldn't have to guess. Are they going to say later it was a joke?"
She then went on to list an example that shocked her.
"One of the things that was said this week that I thought was just absolutely chilling, shook me to my core, was to see Todd Blanche tweet that he believes the governor and the mayor of Minneapolis are engaged in terrorism," she then added. "And it's just another example of these extreme statements. I mean, terrorism, because they are speaking up against overreach by ICE. And Blanche has now said that they are the targets of an investigation by the Justice Department rather than the person who killed this woman, Renee Good."
