Democratic lawmakers claim that if former President Trump is re-elected, the Justice Department will go through a “homicidal mania”.
Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts made speculation about political violence during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on the Office of Personnel Management on Wednesday.
About Project 2025, Pressley criticized the Heritage Foundation’s policy roadmap for future Republican presidents to consolidate political power, calling the foundation’s plan to dismantle government agencies and hire loyal officials through Schedule F appointments a “pathway” to “all-out policy violence.”
“The federal government has the largest and most diverse workforce in the country, and Schedule F, an executive order that replaces tens of thousands of civil servants with partisan sycophants, destroys government infrastructure,” Pressley said at the hearing. said at the public hearing.
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, argued during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Wednesday that former President Trump’s Justice Department would enter a “murderous era” if re-elected. (Fox News)
“It’s important to understand that the far-right extremists who advocate Schedule F see it as a means to an end. This is a means by which they can carry out widespread, large-scale policy violence.” she continued.
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Former President Trump takes center stage at the Republican National Committee’s spring donor convention in Palm Beach, Florida. (Donald Trump 2024 Election Campaign)
Pressley also claimed that if Trump were to become president again, the Justice Department would abuse the death penalty to commit “murder.”
“The Department of Justice will continue to kill,” Pressley told the committee, “rushing to apply the death penalty and extending it to more and more people while circumventing due process protections.”
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The Department of Justice seal photographed in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Andrew Harnick)
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Trump campaign and the Heritage Foundation for reaction to the representatives’ comments.
