'I cannot imagine this case holds up ': Andrew Weissmann on the FBI arresting Milwaukee judge - Deadline - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor for the Justice Department, and Tim Miller, Host of The Bulwark Podcast, join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House with reaction to the FBI carrying out the arrest of a Wisconsin federal judge outside of her courthouse alleging she was obstructing the arrest of an illegal alien, and how the motivation behind how the FBI carried this out is meant to send a chilling effect. - Aired on 04/25/2025.

[Ocelot II]

1. But that's not the point, is it?

The charges are likely to be dropped eventually, but in the meantime she has to defend herself (on her own dime) - and her career as a judge is probably over, since she has to run for re-election. So the real point is to intimidate other judges so they'll be more "careful" in immigration-related cases lest AG Barbie put them through the same wringer.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Excellent point, it's not about any laws for TFG, his only motivation is retribution against those who oppose him

He's based his entire second term on that.

[NJCher]

2. Tim of The Bulwark remarks about

trump's lowest figure: it's his position on immigration. You'd think it would be his unpopular tariffs, right?

Nope, it's his handling of Kilmar Albrego Garcia. This immigration hustle he thought was going to be so popular is not: it's exactly the opposite.

They also note that for the last few weeks the DOJ and trump have been promising to go after the judiciary. Now we have a second case.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. His only motivation for his second term has nothing to do with laws or governing - or helping the American people

His only reason for his second term is the power to exact retribution against those who oppose him.

[NJCher]

5. Former FBI Director McCabe says it's intimidation

'Looks horrible': Former Trump FBI chief says Kash Patel may have fumbled judge’s arrest

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In a Friday segment on CNN, Andrew McCabe — who was briefly the director of the FBI between James Comey and Christopher Wray — said that Patel briefly deleting the tweet could have been the result of an intervention with cooler heads in proximity to the bureau's director. CNN host Kasie Hunt asked McCabe if the deletion of the tweet suggests something may have happened "behind the scenes" that caused alarm within the higher echelon of the nation's top law enforcement agency.

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"The message here is treating this judge like she just committed some sort of a violent crime — which she didn't — and publicly humiliating her. That is the message to the rest of local judges, local sheriffs, local officials who may feel uncomfortable now being on the on the pointy edge of the government's immigration efforts," McCabe said. "This is a this is an effort at intimidation. There's a clear message being sent by the administration here today. I'm not so sure that it's a good one."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/looks-horrible-former-trump-fbi-chief-says-kash-patel-may-have-fumbled-judge-s-arrest/ar-AA1DDpZf?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=81156f008e1d4389ba612589565fbd8b&ei=12

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Of course he "fumbled," he has no idea what he's doing, like TFG's other nominations, he's unqualified for the job

And thanks so much for posting, I agree completely, that's TFG's only motivation, intimidation and retribution. That's all he does - and why he ran yet again.

[NJCher]

7. isn't it odd how he thinks of his job duties?

He thinks they are:

--he calls it public speaking, but it's always public disparagement of some person or idea

--signing executive orders that someone else writes up and he poses signing with his MagicMarker. His executive orders are just invitations to a lawsuit. Today I listened to Dahlia Lithwick and Preet Bahara on Preet's podcast. Dahlia remarked on how bad a job the press has done by covering his executive orders as declarations of law. She said they would more accurately be referred to as his "wish list."

--posing for pictures with world figures like Mark Rutte.

--coming up with scams like his cryptocurrency thing he's got going. People are essentially paying to talk to him. How stupid. As if he has any influence at all at this point, having shown his spectacular failure/backfire with China, who has him by his mushroom.

--tweeting, all day and all night. Sometimes people count his tweets and they are numbers like 468 in a week. One hour he did 79 tweets.

In the farthest stretches of my imagination, I could never think doing this was my job.

--attending rallies to boost his fragile ego.

That's it: those are the actual actions he takes and he calls it doing his job.