How MAGA Republicans’ rhetoric could lead to violence

Former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in the U.S. House of Representatives, including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), have been angrily railing against the prosecutors who are leading criminal cases against him. Trump has slammed special counsel Jack Smith as a "deranged lunatic" and attacked Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Jr., both of whom are Black, as "racist."

According to The Guardian's Peter Stone, Michael Bromwich — a former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) — fears that their inflammatory rhetoric could lead to violence.

Bromwich told The Guardian, "Because Trump never took seriously his oath to protect and defend the Constitution, he cannot fathom that prosecutors and law enforcement personnel do take it seriously and conduct investigations and bring charges based on the evidence and the law rather than to pursue enemies…. The GOP historical advocacy of states' rights, which includes the need for local prosecutors to have autonomy from the federal government, has given way to the need to use the Congress to support Trump and attack his law enforcement enemies."

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Bromwich laments that Trump's reflective defenders in Congress aren't worried about facts — only politics.

Bromwich told the Guardian, "The rule of law means nothing to them, and the facts mean nothing to them. They don't respect Trump, but they are afraid of the political damage he can cause them. That's why they've become his unquestioning puppets."

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Read The Guardian's full report at this link.