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Michigan's 'Moderate' Senator Slotkin Wants to Prosecute Young Americans for Working in the White House

Sen. Elissa Slotkin stood at a podium at the University of Chicago last week and told the audience exactly what she wants to do if Democrats retake Congress. Not fix inflation. Not secure the border. She wants to prosecute the twenty-somethings answering phones in the West Wing.

"I want young people coming out of school to say, 'Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,'" Slotkin said. "I want them to be like, 'Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don't want, and so let me avoid participating in that.' I want that deterrence message sent."

That's a sitting United States Senator — the one Michigan keeps calling a "moderate" — openly strategizing about how to use the criminal justice system to scare 22-year-olds away from government service. Not because they broke a law. Because they might work for the wrong president.

Slotkin laid out the plan with the confidence of someone who thinks the cameras are friendly. She wants Democrats to pursue what she called "signature cases" — not against President Trump, who she acknowledged has presidential immunity, but against "the people who enabled him." Her exact words: "The people around Donald Trump who are doing his bidding and enabling this have no such immunity." The target isn't corruption. The target is participation.

NY Post columnist Miranda Devine dismantled the whole act, writing that "this is how the Bolshevik left who control today's Democratic Party play the game, even as they cloak themselves in conservative disguises, as intelligence professionals, soldiers, astronauts or doctors." Devine called Slotkin "a piece of work" — which, given the source material, qualifies as understatement.

The "moderate" label has been doing heavy lifting for Slotkin since she arrived in Washington. She's a former CIA analyst with three tours in Iraq, and the intelligence background gives her just enough camouflage to avoid the AOC comparisons. She won her 2024 Michigan Senate race against Republican Mike Rogers by a razor-thin margin — 48.6% to 48.3% — in a state Donald Trump carried the same night. That margin wasn't built on far-left promises. It was built on the word "moderate" doing the work her voting record couldn't.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Slotkin "said the quiet part out loud" — that she intends to "unleash a slew of investigations to deter young people from even considering supporting the Administration if they know what is good for them." Utah Sen. Mike Lee was more direct: "It is absolutely disgraceful to threaten young Americans for participating in politics and serving their country."

Slotkin's response to the backlash made it worse. She doubled down, insisting she was talking about accountability for corruption — the same word Democrats have bolted onto every Trump-related prosecution since 2017. "Unbelievable corruption" was the phrase she used at Chicago. She didn't name a single crime. She didn't cite a single statute. She named a feeling and called it a legal strategy.

The Sunday shows, naturally, had no interest in the story. Miranda Devine's column noted the blackout. A sitting senator proposed using prosecutorial power as a recruitment deterrent against the opposing party, and the networks that spent four years covering every anonymous Trump-administration leak couldn't find seven minutes to discuss it.

What Slotkin described at the University of Chicago isn't oversight. Oversight investigates what happened. Slotkin wants to punish what might happen — or more precisely, she wants the threat of punishment to prevent people from showing up at all. The legal term for using prosecution to intimidate political opponents out of public service doesn't appear in any civics textbook the founders would recognize.

She won Michigan by 19,006 votes selling herself as the reasonable choice. The University of Chicago audience got the version of Elissa Slotkin that 19,006 Michiganders never saw.

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