Elliot Williams
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Not all criticism.
criticism or challenging of the policies or the actions of ICE is partisan, right?
And I just think some things, like you said, reach a moral or rule of law point.
When I talk about the Justice Department, this is not me as, oh, Elliott worked for a Democratic administration and is just anti-Trump.
No, to the contrary, I came in as a prosecutor under Bush, right?
when I was young, right, when he was president, and Alberto Gonzalez was Attorney General, and I shook his hand on his first day, and that's, you know, look, I get it, but
When you have these things that we were talking about earlier like putting in U.S.
attorneys outside of the Senate confirmation process who are not fit for the job and are just former attorneys of the president carrying his water in court and losing their top staff, they're all resigning, they're all leaving cases, that's not partisan.
That is a rule of law question.
It needs to be covered not as, you know, we shouldn't be shy just because it's a Republican president who's critical of the media.
We should not be shy
and saying, this is not a left-right thing.
This is a moral question.
This is a rule of law question.
This is an identity of the United States question.
And I think many struggle with that, and quite frankly, get it just really wrong in trying hard to think, well, on the one hand, but on the other hand, when covering Trump.
Can you imagine?
Very clear.
Oh, my God.
Can you imagine just Minneapolis?