Sen. Slotkin urges Dems to use prosecution to make young people afraid to serve in Trump admin

WASHINGTON — Michigan Sen.Elissa Slotkin publicly called on Democrats to intimidate young conservatives who want to work for the Trump administration by prosecuting the president’s staffers.Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA analyst, contended that Democrats must “go after” and make examples out of officials in President Trump’s orbit who engage in corruption to send a message to young people who may want to join the administration.

“I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,’” Slotkin mused at a University of Chicago event last week that has since gone viral.“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that,’” the senator went on.

“I want that deterrence message sent.”The Michigan Democrat also stressed the importance of finding “signature” corruption cases to prosecute rather than just focusing on President Trump specifically.“We do have to have accountability for the unbelievable corruption that we are living under right now,” she said.

“But you can’t just make that your whole personality, right? So you have to pick signature cases, and you have to go after people and projects that are just super egregious.”Slotkin reflected that despite her voting to impeach Trump twice, he’s still in the White House and seemingly alluded to how he survived the four criminal cases against him.“The people around Donald Trump who are doing his bidding and enabling this have no such immunity.

They have no immunity the way the president does,” she added.“And to me, he couldn’t do any of this stuff without all of those people saluting and supporting it.

So you go after the people who do his bidding.”Slotkin’s remarks ignited a firestorm on social media from conservatives.“Sen.Slotkin, a self-avowed ‘defender of democracy,’ told me and o...