President Donald Trump on Nov. 7 ordered the Department of Justice to investigate U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, claiming the Michigan Democrat is seeking to imprison Republicans in an act of “extortion at the highest level,” MLive.com reported.
The order came in a Truth Social post following the Nov. 3 election, which saw Democrats poised to take control of both chambers of Congress. Trump wrote that Democrats are threatening people “including the Attorney General of the United States” with impeachment and other punishments despite having “no reason to do so,” and declared he was “ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately.” He added that “they should be held accountable for this.” Slotkin had spoken at the Michigan Democrats’ watch party on election night at The Department at Hudson’s in Detroit.
Slotkin Says Lawbreakers Should Be Held Accountable
She wrote, “This shouldn’t be controversial: if you break the law or use taxpayer dollars to enrich yourself, you should be held accountable.” She accused Trump of reacting to voters “overwhelmingly voting against rising costs” by promoting Stephen Miller to chief of staff and doubling down on policies that brought him the loss. She called this “corrupt weaponization of the government” and wrote that he should “have Stephen draft a tweet threatening to put me in jail.”
February Grand Jury Declined to Charge Slotkin
Trump has targeted Slotkin before. In February, a grand jury declined to issue charges against her after she and other senators released a video telling U.S. soldiers they are not obligated to follow unlawful orders. Slotkin wrote that his threats “didn’t work” then, or when he repeated them last month. She wrote that his “threats of legal action and worse” failed when he tried to “criminally indict me in front of a grand jury last February,” and that his “hair-trigger obsession on the issue of corruption and illegal orders reveals more about you than it does about me.”
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