A Democratic lawmaker Thursday had a serious warning for former Fox News host and current U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) announced that she declined an interview with Pirro and Attorney General Pam Bondi, refusing to talk to them after she and five other congressional leaders made a video in November quoting current law, and reminding service members that the military has a responsibility to refuse illegal orders.
“In response, President Trump tweeted more than a dozen times, calling for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged,” Slotkin wrote in an email.
But Slotkin has no plans to back down.
“I wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney Pirro to inform them that I won’t be doing an interview — and that their offices should preserve their records should I decide to sue for their infringement on my Constitutional rights,” Slotkin said.
She has set out to fight Trump’s Department of Justice instead.
“I am not going to legitimize what they’re doing,” she added. “The video in question was public, and I’ve talked about it extensively in the open. Our Constitution is crystal clear about our freedom of speech — and that’s a value worth fighting for.”
Despite people urging her to give up her fight, she has decided to push back.
“To be honest, very smart people have told me to keep my head down and be quiet — that doing so would make this inquiry go away. But that’s exactly what Trump and Pirro want. They are employing physical and legal intimidation to get me to shut up. And, much more importantly, to deter other people from criticizing them,” Slotkin explained.
“So I’m taking the opposite approach, and I am fighting back, because this is bigger than any one Senator or any one video,” she said. “If they can do this to me, what can they do to a business leader or the head of a community foundation or a mom who goes viral on the internet for criticizing Donald Trump?”
She also had a reminder for Pirro and other Trump allies.
“And what people like Jeanine Pirro need to understand is that while the President of the United States may have immunity according to the Supreme Court, those who do his bidding do not. And if they are going to salute and do what he wants as part of this weaponization, they are going to own those consequences,” Slotkin said.
“We all own our choices. I own mine. And Pirro and Trump must own theirs.”
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