Former top lawyer for Trump DHS furiously calls for president's impeachment: 'I'm enraged'
A conservative who served as the top lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security under president Trump, and who helped create the DHS in 2002, is furiously calling for the president to be impeached after the latest killing by agents.
George Conway, a fellow conservative who has opposed Trump for years, noted about the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti that, "T
Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration."
"It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent," he said on Saturday. "It's about a corrupt, out-of-control regime's effort to provoke citizens in order to justify the violence it desires to commit against them so that it can expand and retain its power. That is fascism. It is tyranny. It is governmental criminality."
Conway's post appears to have struck a chord with former George W. Bush appointee John Mitnick, who also served in Trump's DHS. He shared it on social media.
"I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department," he added Saturday. "I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. Impeach and remove Trump—now."
Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan replied to that post by Mitnick, simply writing, "