A top Justice Department official warned managers in a recent conference call that federal prosecutors could be fired if they decline to investigate and pursue cases of reported election fraud, according to two people with knowledge of the call.

Aakash Singh, the top lieutenant to the Deputy Attorney General, warned that Department of Justice lawyers must pursue election fraud cases that FBI or Department of Homeland Security agents present to them or risk termination, according to the people, who sought anonymity to avoid reprisals for sharing internal discussion.

Singh also told supervisors that FBI and DHS can overrule a prosecutor who declines to pursue one of their investigations, and that the office of the Deputy Attorney General will make the final decision on whether a case goes forward, one of the people told MS NOW.

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      Better yet, they never presented evidence of voter fraud, nor did they claim any voter fraud had actually occurred in court. It was all smoke and mirrors.

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    Fire all the competent prosecutors and you’re left with a bunch of Rudy Giuliani type incompetent bozos who’ll crash and burn in every single possible case you give them.

    Fascism is always doomed to fail one way or another. Its tragedy is that usually it fails after millions have already died because of it.

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    Then do what’s right and get fired. Go work somewhere else and let the idiots try to prosecute people when they don’t have the skills or evidence to do so.

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    Ok. You can still pursue it poorly, to the point where you sabotage any chance of the case proceeding…