'Squad' Democrat claims Trump DOJ would go on 'murdering spree' with death penalty

A Democratic lawmaker is claiming that if former President Trump is re-elected, his Department of Justice would go on a "murdering spree."

Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts made the speculations about political violence at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on the Office of Personnel Management on Wednesday.

Speaking about Project 2025, a policy roadmap for a future Republican president to consolidate political power created by the Heritage Foundation, Pressley criticized its plan to gut agencies and hire loyal staff via Schedule F appointments as a "pathway" to "wholesale policy violence."

"The federal government has the largest and most diverse workforce in the country and Schedule F – an Executive Order that would replace tens of thousands of civil servants with partisan sycophants would destroy our government infrastructure —destroy it," Pressley said at the hearing.

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts claimed during a Wednesday hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that former President Trump's Department of Justice would go on a "murdering spree" if re-elected. (Fox News)

"It is critical that we understand that the far-right extremists who are advocating for Schedule F see it as a means to an end. It is their pathway to enact widespread, wholesale policy violence," she continued.

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Pressley went on to claim that under another Trump presidency, the Department of Justice would perpetrate a "murdering spree" via abuse of capital punishment.

"The Department of Justice would go on a murdering spree," Pressley told the committee. "It would rush to use the death penalty and expand its use to even more people while circumventing due process protections."

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The seal for the Justice Department is photographed in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Heritage Foundation called Pressley's remaks "Soros-directed talking points" and "profoundly unserious" in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

"Project 2025 is a coalition of more than 100 leading conservative organizations coming together to advance mainstream, common-sense reform to return the federal government to one that serves the American people, not attacks them," said Heritage.