‘I think about this every day’: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow warns of scary, dystopian DOJ move

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday walked her audience through what she described as a “boring, scary story” – but one that she flagged as immensely important.“It is unrelentingly boring and unrelentingly scary in equal measure, and I have thought about this story every day since it broke and it is developing now,” Maddow said as she teed up the tale for her viewers.The MSNBC host went on to dissect in detail actions by Acting U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. Ed Martin that led to the “shock resignation” of a top criminal division lawyer in the prosecutor’s office – an office which she referred to as “quite bananas.”“When it comes to that particular story out of this office, the thing that has happened at this one prosecutor’s office that I think about every day is a story about them freezing a bank account, freezing a bunch of money in a Citibank account,” Maddow said. She added that Martin, who helped organize the “Stop The Steal” movement, appears to have ordered the prosecutor “to bring a criminal investigation when she said there was no evidence of a crime.” When that prosecutor and others refused, Martin did it himself, Maddow said.ALSO READ: ‘I miss lynch mobs’: The secretary of retribution’s followers are getting impatient“This seemingly boring thing is also the opening chapter of a very scary dystopian novel in which the government is seizing your phone records, obtaining all of your text messages and your emails and your iCloud, and maybe raiding your house and raiding your office,” the host said. “And they are taking or freezing the contents of your bank account when there is no probable cause that you have committed a crime because what there is, is a federal prosecutor’s office that will do that stuff anyway, even when their own career prosecutors and a judge tell them there’s no crime here, you can’t do it.”Maddow concluded that while the story at first glance “seems like a boring story in terms of all the proper nouns involved,” it is “scary in terms of what this means.” She ended her show’s opening monologue Wednesday by delivering “two important developments” in the case.“First of all, number one, they are in trouble in court now because of this case,” Maddow told viewers. The second, she added, was that the prosecutor’s office has “been stopped from doing the one thing that they were trying to get away with that really does afford the possibility of Trump just opening the floodgates against Democrats, protesters, journalists, government officials, potentially judges.”“They have finally been stopped at least for the moment from doing something that I think, if they were able to do this, might reasonably result in a lot of people actually fleeing this country,” Maddow said.Watch the clip below or at this link:

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