Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin laid out lawfare plans to launch against Trump administration officials if the Democrats win the majority in Congress on undercover video obtained by Townhall.
The Democrat, who was campaigning on Thursday for congressional candidate Sean McCann, talked about what she plans on doing to Republicans if the Democrats take the House and Senate.
“I’m worried that we’re going to be too nice,” someone tells the lawmaker on the undercover video. “What are we going to do to hold the Trump regime and its collaborators responsible? I’m talking prosecutions."
Slotkin, who recently took heat for openly talking about targeting Trump administration officials to deter young conservatives from working in government, said, "I'm with you. So basically, assuming we win both houses, even if we just win one, we’ll come up– we have a list of, like, the ‘signature cases.’ So the things where it’s, like, so egregious, such a violation of law, such a corruption case, like– and we will have, in every committee, there will be the ‘signature cases’ that we– where we hold people accountable.”
She added, “I just went to Hungary. I went over to Budapest in Hungary because they just got rid of their authoritarian leader after 16 years." She said that she was wanting advice for how to go after the president. “And I’m like, how did you handle 16 years of corruption? We don’t have that much, but we have so much. And they did this ‘signature cases’ [strategy]."
Slotkin said that those cases are things that "people identify with" and went on to name the ballroom project and the reflecting pool renovation.
The senator, who campaigned as a moderate who worked in the CIA under the Bush and Obama administrations, has recently taken a harsher stance against the Trump administration and has claimed that the president will "come up with a national security incident" to change the results of the midterm elections.
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