'Really alarming': Ex-prosecutor highlights 'red flag' about Trump-driven violence

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco came out with a warning that Trump and Republican attacks against Justice Department personnel have led to an "unprecedented rise" in violent threats against the agency.

This is a sign that the danger of violence posed by the MAGA movement is escalating, said former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on MSNBC Wednesday.

"Joyce, that is an alarming proposition," said anchor Alicia Menendez.

"It really is," agreed Vance. "You know, the deputy attorney general is someone who has served in a number of positions at DOJ. She was a line prosecutor. She ran the national security division. She had national security responsibilities in the White House during the Obama administration. And to see her feel the need ... to give an interview and to be willing to talk about threats to prosecutors and others is really alarming. It's a real red flag about the position Donald Trump has placed the country in."

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"Yes, a big part of it has been his rhetoric that people have accepted that undercuts DOJ's integrity and the public's confidence in DOJ's integrity," Vance continued. "But again, it goes back to our discussion earlier that Donald Trump is one voice, and if Donald Trump had said this and if others in his party had said that's not the case, these are strong, solid democratic institutions that we can have confidence in, we would not be at the point that we're in today."

"Now we've got a deputy attorney general who's forced to reveal in the course of an interview that not one but three presidential candidates were the subject of serious threats," added Vance. "There are now so many FBI agents and their families who have been threatened, that there's a whole unit at the bureau that's committed to investigating those claims. This is a diversion of our resources from where they should be, and again, it lies at the feet of the former president. People in law enforcement are used to threats in the course of their work. What they're not used to is those threats from coming inside of the house."

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