'Most concrete scary sign': Ex-prosecutor panics over potential AG's 'dead bodies' tweet
Raw StoryViolent rhetoric from a right-wing lawyer who could be the nation's next attorney general represents the most terrifying sign that President-elect Donald Trump's administration could deliver a fatal blow to democracy, a former federal prosecutor said Thursday. Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman told MSNBC host Ana Cabrera he was deeply concerned by Mike Davis' X comments suggesting he wanted to prosecute special counsel Jack Smith and, with unspecified opponents, "to drag their dead political bodies through the streets, burn them, and throw them off the wall." "Smith has been a public servant all his life and there is no real issue that he's committed any crimes," Litman said of the prosecutor who charged Trump with election interference and Espionage Act violations. CNN host Jim Acosta recalled Trump's recent comment that he'd like to see former Rep. Liz Cheney subjected to guns "trained on her face" and an off-color joke about past assassination attempts targeting the press. Davis was apparently watching CNN's coverage of his "dead political bodies" tweet and struck an unrepentant tone when he issued a response on X.
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