A former Justice Department lawyer is speaking out about illegal orders he received while working under President Trump’s hand-picked assistant U.S. attorney general, Emil Bove. Whistleblower Erez Reuveni told “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley that Bove instructed attorneys at a meeting that they may have to consider telling a court, “F— you” — though Bove used the expletive. The order came as the Trump administration rushed to send a plane full of immigrants to be imprisoned in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, CECOT, without trial.
Erez Reuveni: “Bove emphasized, 'Those planes need to take off, no matter what.' And then, after a pause, he also told all in attendance, 'And if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court, “[bleep] you.”'”
Scott Pelley: “And when you heard that, you thought what?”
Erez Reuveni: “It felt like a bomb had gone off. Here is the number three official using expletives to tell career attorneys that we may just have to consider disregarding federal court orders.”
In a statement, Emil Bove called Reuveni’s claims a “mix of falsehoods and wild distortions of reality.” Bove was confirmed by the Senate in July to a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge.
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