Nicolle Wallace mocks DOJ after botched indictments: 'Nothing short of an embarrassment'

President Donald Trump's DOJ got a tongue-lashing on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" on Thursday as anchor Nicolle Wallace dismantled their botched efforts to criminally prosecute Democratic lawmakers.

"There are signs everywhere that there are, in fact, some checks remaining on the Trump administration's worst impulses and excesses," said Wallace. "We saw it this week with the Department of Justice, when they were handed a resounding defeat by a grand jury, when Jeanine Pirro's office tried and failed to indict six Democratic lawmakers who simply released a video, 90 seconds, urging the men and women of the military to refuse any illegal orders."

This flat rejection of a grand jury indictment, called a "no true bill," was "nothing short of an embarrassment for the Trump administration, and it is something so rare for any U.S. Attorney that many go their whole careers without that happening to them, without ever facing rejection from a grand jury like this one," said Wallace. "

"In the face of these checks on Donald Trump's autocratic tactics, his foot soldiers are doubling down and trying to carry out his desire for revenge. Punchbowl is reporting that the Trump administration will try to indict the six lawmakers again," noted Wallace. However, she noted, the upshot is "

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