Sen. Jon Ossoff made an argument last week that has been conspicuously absent from Democrats’ talking points.
Speaking to MSNBC, he cited alleged human rights abuses of people held by the Trump administration in immigration detention.
“There at, some point, is going to be a reckoning for all of this,” said the Georgia Democrat, who’s facing reelection next fall.
Then he got more specific.
“These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem’s staff right now,” Ossoff added. “They are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities that they’re currently running.”
The message: It might seem like anything goes under Trump, but that won’t always be the case.
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