Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) will not sit for voluntary interviews with federal prosecutors or the FBI concerning her participation in a video telling military service members they should reject “unlawful orders.”
She is also threatening to sue the administration over its investigation. “If they’re going to open inquiries, I’m going to punch back,” Slotkin said in a brief interview Thursday.
Slotkin’s lawyer, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, wrote in a letter Thursday to Attorney General Pam Bondi that the senator would not comply with the request for a seated interview. Bharara also asked the inquiry be immediately closed and that Slotkin would reserve the “right to sue for malicious prosecution and infringement of her Constitutional rights.”
“There is simply nothing for prosecutors to investigate — there is no crime here,” Bharara wrote.
