🚨Trump Prosecutor RESIGNS IN PROTEST…

A top career prosecutor in the Trump. regime, someone who was at the United. States Attorney's Office in Illinois, is. saying that she feels thrown under the. bus by the Trump regime, and thus she is. resigning, and she is resigning under. protest based on how she's being. treated. Now, this is an individual. who's been widely accused of engaging in. some pretty bad misconduct regarding the. Broadview 6 case with the grand jury.

misconduct we reported on on the Midas. Touch Network involving the protesters. who were at the Broadview facility in. Illinois, the ICE detention center. there. And then it turned out that there. was a career prosecutor who was engaged. in something called vouching. to the grand jury, and also perhaps. speaking with grand jurors in the halls, which are big no-nos in the Department. of Justice manual. You'll recall that the federal judge who.

was overseeing this Broadview 6 criminal. prosecution of these peaceful protesters. ended up getting the grand jury. testimony. There was a ruling made about. the underlying conduct, but this. prosecutor is basically saying, I'll. read you, like, you threw me out there, you know, I was a career prosecutor, you. know, ICE did this arrest, I was, you. know, I was on the front lines, and I. was, you know, pursuing what I thought I. was supposed to do, and now you won't.

even defend me, Trump DOJ, in your legal. briefs that you're filing. before the court. And so this, I guess now former prosecutor saying. because the Trump regime did not want to. defend her. in motions and in public filings, she. wanted to intervene on her own behalf. and to basically file something in the. court docket. She said to try to defend. why she did what she did, which.

ultimately led to the dismissal of the. underlying charges when the judge got. the grand jury transcript against these. peaceful protesters. But she then said, well, I was being basically threatened. by the Trump regime that I couldn't. intervene even on my behalf to try to. explain why I was doing what I was. doing. And they said they were going to. fire me and discipline me. So, I'm. protesting. I'm a objecting and I'm resigning under. protest basically. And so, her name is. Sherry Mackle Mecklenburg, career.

prosecutor accused of misconduct in the. Broadview Six case. She's resigned. New. York Times obtained a scathing. resignation letter that she submitted. I'll just read you a short portion of it. right here. But here's the career prosecutor who was. accused of this misconduct in the. Broadview Six protest case. She was that. case was then dismissed. She's now. resigning Pursuing to this letter, she. writes, "I retire under protest from the.

DOJ effective immediately. To avoid any. misunderstanding. or misstatements about the reason for my. forced retirement, I set forth them in. this letter. I set them forth in this. letter. As you learned on September. 22nd, I intended to seek leave to. intervene in the Broadview Six case to. defend myself against the continuing. allegations of pervasive misconduct in. the defense lawyers reply brief. And. against the false and inflammatory. accusations in that brief, those false.

accusations include that one, I sat. silently by while the court addressed. transcript redactions when I was unaware. of both the redactions and the hearings. And two, I outright lied to the grand. jury, which I did not. I guess she's. saying, well, I vouched, but I didn't. outright lie. And I may have had these. conversations in the hall, but I didn't. do what I was also being accused of by. the defense attorney. So, I wanted to.

make that filing to I guess try to. defend myself on these points, but now. Trump DOJ, you're saying I can't do it, so now I'm resigning. I I want to bring. in Harry Litman from the Talking Fed's. YouTube channel stuff. So, it's about a. two-page letter, Harry, and I could go. through it, but that's basically the. point that she's making. And look, the. Trump regimes. did this, you know, these these ICE. detention centers, these horrific places. that we that we call concentration camps. here cuz that's sometimes, you know,

what it looks like, sometimes about. what's going on. You had people peacefully protesting. there and in detention centers across. the country. These protesters got. arrested, then they were brought before. a grand jury. This prosecutor was one of the many. prosecutors across the country who were. then bringing cases against these. protesters at the behest and at the. demand of main justice, go after these. political enemies of Trump. You know, she gets the case, she goes in front of.

the grand jury, she engages in this. vouching and these conversations. That. conduct later is. uncovered by the defense lawyers. The. case gets dismissed, and a lot of other. allegations are made about what she did. in addition to what was found by the. court, whether that happened or didn't. happen. She's saying, I want to at least. I may have done this bad, but I want to. defend myself against these things. because I didn't do these things at me,

but now Trump DOJ, you're fully throwing. me under the bus, and I'm your total. fall person, and it's bigger than me, and so kind of a total mess, but this. goes to the point that you and I are. talking about. In normal times, Harry, this is not something you. This is not be normal behavior in a DOJ. This is a dysfunctional, bizarre, you. know, environment antithetical to what. the DOJ once was. >> And that's precisely the headline. You.

put your finger on it. This a bizarre. story. Let's be clear. We had, for. example, the resignations of Danielle. Sassoon or her deputy in New York who. were told I don't you know, the chief of. the criminal division in DC, very. high-up people who were very clear, you're telling me to violate the. principles of federal prosecution. I. can't do that. And I'm resigning. It's. just a clear kind of indictment of the.

department. This is. So, a a woman who was, by any measure, very much involved in. very serious misconduct, she along with. others. And we'll just start with this. bizarre point. She's been there 20. years. And she. does vouching in the grand jury. And she. talks to grand jurors outside. That that.

is so beyond the pale, so second nature. for any. AUSA with a quarter of her experience. So, we start in a weird place for. starters. And if it were a normal DOJ, you could see her as the malcontent. wanting to, you know, maximize the. defense of herself and there's an. internal debate in the office. And. ultimately, if the office is being.

called to the carpet by the judge, you. know, that the office has to decide what. to say. But But they they would try to. hang heavy for their colleague and the. like. That's what you might try to. surmise in a normal DOJ, but what this. letter and the whole story seems to. portend is a complete show inside. DOJ, even going to main justice. This is.

one of the, you know, dozen or so. instances in which. prosecutions that have no business being. brought are done at the order of Todd. Blanche, who wants to please Donald. Trump. They shouldn't have gone there in. the first place, and everything is all. tangled up and. misconstrued or mistaken from the start. So, but now the heat is on these guys, and the judge, remember they called the.

US attorney on the carpet, and the US attorney managed to snatch. defeat from the jaws of victory by doing. a sort of mea culpa. He is He also is a. career. person in that office, but then. basically trashing the protesters, the the the defendants whose whose. claims were released. It is clear, but. the specifics are not, that inside that. office now there is what happens in a.

dysfunctional office. First, the rank. improprieties. again, it's just head spinning. I can't. I'm trying to even put my, you know, mind next to how somebody with that much. experience. Even they get a lot of. pressure. We really got to get these. guys, Sherry. Vouching in the grand jury, knowing a. transcript could should could come out. is just. It's not It's not just a disaster. It's.

an incredibly. boneheaded move. But now, you know, you. have So, you have the kind of of DOJ. where this can happen. You wouldn't. think. uh with a 20-year veteran in there, but. but with the kind of pressure from on. high, it could. And now, the um the rats. are scurrying and uh jumping off the. uh the ship um because there's going to. be follow-through. And yes, she's part.

of the follow-through, and she's she. goes in the office and makes a you know, "What about me? And I want to defend. myself.". It's complicated question. Normally, how. to and and a question really for DOJ. leadership except here, that DOJ DOJ. leadership is so self-protective, self-involved, or worrying about the. president. And it could well be that. they're acting really, if it's not. straight-up.

improperly, just really, in fact, I she. says, throwing her under the bus. By the. way, uh this is implicit um it's a three-page. letter, and it's an implicit um kind of. threat because she's says, "I'm going to. go in now as an independent citizen and. tell the facts about what happened.". Obviously, back behind the scenes, everyone is really in a cold sweat. wondering if the fallout, and there is.

already mondo fallout, is going to come. home and hurt them and their license and. their futures in the in the uh lawyers'. world in Chicago. And she's now the. ultimate loose cannon there. But, beyond. that, it's it's a little bit hard I I it. portends all kinds of nasty backbiting, uh unprofessional behavior behind the. scenes. But, I think we're going to be. finding out more about that. For now, we.

just have this letter boom falling from. the skies and making her displeasure. known and saying, "I'm resigning under. protest. I don't want to do this. You. guys are making me do it. I will see you. in court.". >> You know, there's a bigger story here as. well about institutional rot because. this isn't. like some of those new young MAGA. prosecutors who were just absolutely. awful from the outset and they're put in.

these positions to do all of this. horrible stuff and they do the horrible. stuff and you predict it like a Lindsey. Halligan or all the people we've talked. about before, right? You know, this is. someone who's worked for decades at the. Department of Justice, but it goes to. also show you the kind of institutional. capture and when you are with bad. people, it sometimes permeates an. organization.

>> And so, that's what we're seeing right. now as well. >> Yeah, I know, look, I really agree. Again, it's a puzzle how somebody is so. derelict, but certainly one obvious. solution is the new gang come in, you're. going to be doing this now and you. better come out with an indictment and. just knowing better. Lindsey Halligan. obviously didn't know better, didn't. know her way to the you know, to the. grand jury room, but uh Mecklenburg does. and did and you know, I think she'll.

part of the story she'll have to tell is. the whole kinds of pressure campaign put. on by the US attorney saying, "Go get. these guys, nail their nail them to the. wall uh when it's exactly the kind of. case that did DOJ had no business. bringing in the first place.". >> Exactly and I think that's what they're. all worried that she's going to say. And. so, everybody make sure you subscribe to. Harry Litman's YouTube channel, the. Talking Fed's YouTube channel. Just. search on YouTube Talking Feds. He's got.

the Talking Fed's Substack, the Talking. Fed's podcast, and the Talking Fed's. YouTube channel. Thanks, Harry. >> Thank you, Ben. Hey, if you want the full story, how. democracy got here, and how we take it. back, pre-order our new book WTF America. today. Just scan the QR code or click. the link in the description. Let's do. this. >> [music]. [music].