Jon Ossoff

Well, that the rule of law is hanging by a thread in the United States right now.

We have public enemies lists, DOJ drawing up orders to US attorneys to investigate political targets.

Makes me think of

There's an expression I think attributed to like a Stalinist official in the USSR, which was something like, bring me the man and I'll find you the crime.

It is such a perversion of justice.

And it's also just another piece of proof that the thing about Trump is that every accusation that he makes is actually like a deep confession of his true intent.

and he is weaponizing the Department of Justice and the entire federal government as a political instrument.

This effort to crush the opposition, destroy the pillars of authority that might oppose or criticize him, stifle dissent, make examples of his enemies and adversaries using the force of law is,

so deeply un-American, and I think one of the most significant threats to the basic fabric of our republic in well over a century.

It's like I'm sure that all the folks in Georgia who are losing access to labor and delivery services or maybe to an ICU because of these Medicaid cuts or whose groceries have gone up 8% in a year will be relieved that the president's investigating escalator failures in New York City.

Would you consider passing a law to make escalator sabotage a felony?

As of our taping this, I think it's too soon to tell, but it doesn't bode well that the president is refusing even to meet with opposition leaders in Congress.

I do think this is a big mistake from OMB and the White House and Russ Vogt.

You know, the mass firings and the Doge effort were hugely destructive and hugely unpopular.

I mean, there's a reason that they kicked Elon to the curb, at least publicly.

you know, like in Georgia, a quarter of CDC employees have been pushed out or they've tried to push them out.

The American public doesn't like mass firings, you know, and I know that it sparks joy in Trump's West wing to fire hundreds of thousands of public servants.

But if what they plan to do is to refuse to talk,

in refusing to talk, force a shutdown, and then sort of rampage, the public's gonna turn pretty quickly against that.

So I think it's seriously overplaying his hand for the budget director.