Senator Elissa Slotkin (D) just made a public threat against young people considering working for the Trump administration:
New York Post: Sen. Slotkin urges Dems to use prosecution to make young people afraid to serve in Trump admin
Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA analyst, contended that Democrats must “go after” and make examples out of officials in President Trump’s orbit who engage in corruption to send a message to young people who may want to join the administration.
“I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,’” Slotkin mused at a University of Chicago event last week that has since gone viral.
“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that,’” the senator went on. “I want that deterrence message sent.”
Surely using prosecution as a political weapon could never come back to haunt anyone?
Senator Slotkin now states she is being criticized for this intimidation because she's a woman.
No, Senator. The problem is the message itself: threatening people with “a ton of problems” to discourage them from working for an administration you oppose.That's playing with fire.


