MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow walked her audience through what she called a “boring, scary story” on Wednesday—one she emphasized as being of immense importance. “It is unrelentingly boring and unrelentingly scary in equal measure, and I have thought about this story every day since it broke and it is developing now,” Maddow said as she introduced the issue.
The MSNBC host dissected actions by Acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, which led to the “shock resignation” of a top criminal division lawyer in the prosecutor’s office—an office Maddow described as “quite bananas.”
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“The thing that has happened at this one prosecutor’s office that I think about every day is a story about them freezing a bank account, freezing a bunch of money in a Citibank account,” Maddow said. She explained that Martin, who helped organize the “Stop The Steal” movement, allegedly pressured a prosecutor to launch a criminal investigation despite no evidence of a crime.
When that prosecutor and others refused, Martin reportedly took the matter into his own hands. “This seemingly boring thing is also the opening chapter of a very scary dystopian novel in which the government is seizing your phone records, obtaining all of your text messages and your emails and your iCloud, and maybe raiding your house and raiding your office,” Maddow warned.
“And they are taking or freezing the contents of your bank account when there is no probable cause that you have committed a crime.” She further stressed that this case illustrates a dangerous precedent where “a federal prosecutor’s office will do that stuff anyway, even when their own career prosecutors and a judge tell them there’s no crime here, you can’t do it.”
While the story may seem “boring in terms of all the proper nouns involved,” Maddow argued that it is “scary in terms of what this means.” She then delivered “two important developments” in the case. “First of all, number one, they are in trouble in court now because of this case,” Maddow informed her viewers.
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Secondly, she revealed that the prosecutor’s office had “been stopped from doing the one thing that they were trying to get away with that really does afford the possibility of Trump just opening the floodgates against Democrats, protesters, journalists, government officials, potentially judges.”
“They have finally been stopped, at least for the moment, from doing something that I think, if they were able to do this, might reasonably result in a lot of people actually fleeing this country,” Maddow concluded.
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