Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who recently won election as senator, said Tuesday on MSNBC that Donald Trump's campaign of retribution and revenge will begin with the weaponization of the Justice Department under his attorney general selection of Pam Bondi.
Schiff, who has long been a target of Trump and could end up on the "list" of those who will face retribution, joined MSNBC hos Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday afternoon.
Wallace began the segment talking about special counsel John Durham, the investigator Trump tasked with investigating Robert Mueller's probe. Durham was ultimately humiliated in court, characterized one legal analyst. He lost the only cases he brought as part of seeking retribution for Trump.
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So, Wallace commented, the question will be whether Bondi can legitimately garner results for Trump.
"You can very well see a lot of prosecutors like Durham who spend millions of taxpayer dollars to come up with nothing," said Schiff. "Pam Bondi follows through with what she's pledged to do, which is to investigate nonexistent voter fraud, for example, or to go after the prosecutors."
He asked, what that means to Bondi and to the new Trump Justice Department.
"Is she also going to go after the grand jurors who found there was probable cause to believe he was engaged in multiple crimes?"
In both of Trump's federal cases, grand juries found enough evidence to indict Trump. In March 2023, a Manhattan grand jury approved a 34-count indictment against Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case. Ultimately, jurors found him guilty on all counts.
"Is she going to dispute the fact that he had boxes and boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago?" Schiff also asked. "Many were highly classified. That he obstructed the investigation? Is she somehow going to contest there was a massive attack on the Capitol and all that he did to incite it? I'm not sure what they are going to do except waste a lot of time and money."
He went on to wonder if the goal was merely to harass people. Schiff also pointed out that some will be seasoned prosecutors, and he doesn't anticipate there will be any evidence. Still, there will be a high "cost of standing up to Donald Trump." It's something he called a "tragic misuse of taxpayer resources."
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