Nationwide political correspondent Maggie Haberman on Monday expressed doubts about President-elect Trump stopping the Justice Division (DOJ) from investigating prosecutors on particular counsel Jack Smith’s workforce.
“If the idea is that if there’s lots of people around Trump and The White House who are going to prevent him from doing this, I think people are sorely mistaken,” Haberman, a CNN political analyst and reporter with the New York Instances, instructed “The Source” host Kaitlan Collins.
Her feedback come on the heels of Trump tapping former Florida Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi to move DOJ after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) withdrew from consideration. Although, some have sounded the alarm over previous feedback made by Bondi in 2023 calling for an investigation of prosecutors who “weaponized” the authorized system in opposition to the president-elect.
“The Division of Justice — the prosecutors might be prosecuted, the dangerous ones. The investigators might be investigated as a result of the deep state, final time period for President Trump, they have been hiding within the shadows,” Bondi said at the time, during an interview on Fox News. “However now they’ve a highlight on them, they usually can all be investigated.”
Haberman added that she suspects that Bondi might be requested about her feedback throughout the Senate affirmation listening to.
“I think that you can expect that Pam Bondi and everybody else who has to go through a confirmation hearing are going to be asked by the Democratic senators about those comments and it’ll be very interesting to see what she says,” Haberman instructed CNN.
The remarks comply with the Washington Submit’s report that Trump plans to fireplace “the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president.” The information got here days earlier than Smith and Decide Tanya Chutkan moved to dismiss Trump’s federal election interference and categorized paperwork instances.
The president-elect additionally plans to create investigative groups throughout the DOJ to search for proof of fraud in battleground states that would have impacted that 2020 election, in keeping with The Submit.
