Bondi Demands Walz Turn Over Minnesota Voter Rolls to ‘Restore Rule of Law’ to State | “This is blackmail. This is the way organized crime works.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/pam-bondi-minnesota

47 Comments

  1. It is *shocking* to me a wannabe mobster with convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud would engage in organized criminality as President.

    Shocking. Never. Could. Have. Predicted. This.

  2. The FBI has been SUCCESSFULLY going after high-profile criminals for decades and you barely know they exist. WHY haven’t they EVER used the tactics ICE is using?

    THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CUSTOMS, IMMIGRATION, OR PROTECTING PEOPLE!!!

  3. Extortion is a crime. The head of the department of justbendover should be impeached, convicted and arrested.

  4. Maybe she should be restoring the rule of law to the Epstein files she’s illegally withholding?

  5. BadgeOfDishonour on

    Walz should send them all the voter rolls, with every name and piece of data fully redacted. Just pages and pages of black ink. Same way the Epstein list has been presented.

  6. It’s also very illegal. This regime is just racking up the evidence against themselves for later.

  7. KrookedDoesStuff on

    This is also how fascism works.

    Once they have voter rolls, they can find reasons to invalidate certain voters, right before the election, and make elections one sided

  8. Additional-Software4 on

    Remember that she is Donald Trumps personal attorney, and acts in that capacity under the guise of being AG.

    Those voter rolls and welfare data are for her clients personal use, and you can only use your imagination as to why he wants that information 

  9. Blackmail implies the Administration has something to hang over the powers that be in Minnesota. This is more aptly extortion (e.g., Nice state you got there, be a shame if something happened to it).

  10. Odd-Strength-3789 on

    It is blackmail. Old Punkinhead fancies himself to be a mob boss, and this is one of their tactics.

  11. Trump and his administration are all criminals and pathological liars. The worst humans the GOP found to represent them well. The Republican party needs to be disbanded, their goal is to throw out the Constitution. Simply treasonous!

  12. Top-Carob-5412 on

    Trump’s mid term election strategy. Terrorize anyone that doesn’t have an R next to their name and put them in his fake domestic terrorist data base, disenfranchising them. Most people won’t have enough money to fight the legal battle to have their voting rights restored.

  13. Adventurous_Test_296 on

    Bondi should explain the connection between the provision of voter rolls and executing people in the streets.

  14. Bishopjones2112 on

    It’s terrorism. By definition.

    The FBI defines terrorism as the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. This includes both domestic and international terrorism, focusing on ideologically motivated violent acts.

    So Bondi stating we will leave these people that are scaring your population and shooting them there until you give us voter information falls clearly within this. Use of force and threatening a population in furtherance to their political objective.

  15. PLEASE STOP SAYING “BLACKMAIL” when you just mean extortion!!!

    it isn’t a synonym!!

    BLACKMAIL= “I DID SOMETHING BAD AND NOW WILL PAY YOUR ABUSIVE PRICE TO COVER IT UP”

    Innocent people cannot be blackmailed!

    To say you’re being blackmailed means you did something you want to hide.

    We all know who can use that word

  16. This is an insult to actual organized crime around the world. This is very much disorganized crime lead by a Used Steaks salesman.

  17. The Trump regime is using lies and propaganda to control the media and obscure the truth for their tyrannical agenda. Defund, charge, convict and then abolish ICE, convict and remove Trump, convict and remove Noem and all of their adjacent corrupt loyalists, and release the Epstein Files. This is not politics as normal. This is domestic terrorism at the hands of our government.

  18. I’m starting to think that there are some major lawsuits and trials in the future with grim repercussions for traitors to the country. I was skeptical at first, but emboldened Republicans are smugly becoming the greatest authors of their own demise.

  19. I know most of you already know this, but seriously start brushing up on Hitler’s rise to power, as well as the rise of his scummy criminal mates, Goering, Himmler, Hess and Goebbels.

    The timeline is being repeated in front of our very eyes and the USA is ever so close to their Kristallnacht. Once this happens there is no turning back.

    Hitler was waging war on Europe and started the killing in the thousands and sending the rest to concentration camps, of not just Jews but also disabled people, people of colour and people who just stood up against the regime, long before we called it WW2.

    Born in Austria, we study this timeline intimately in school. Do not take our warnings lightly or you may have to answer for generations to come “why didnt the American people do anything to stop it?”

    The US is in a bad spot, and it’s further declining quickly every single day. History books tell us where you’ll end up.

    Good luck.

  20. FluidmindWeird on

    Any congresspeople NOT set to Impeach this criminal for this behavior is complicit in an active crime attempting to break state and federal law regarding voting data. Period.

  21. They need voter rolls to help them mirror votes and manipulate voting machine results. Key part of Putin’s playbook for perpetual power. Now that their plan is public, keep the discussion about the fraud going. They cheated in 2024 and the evidence is there. They intend to do it again.

  22. These freaking republicans are out of control and they are killing the entire country. Pathetic and unacceptable.

  23. AGrandNewAdventure on

    If removing the troops is as easy as turning over the voter roles then its clear there is no “emergency” requiring them to be here in the first place.

  24. brashthehermit on

    This is not a legitimate administration. This is an illegitimate fascist regime trying to blackmail and terrorize the country into submission. Fuck every single one of these corrupt immoral sacks of shit.