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Trump ally escalates war on Elissa Slotkin with demand DOJ probe her staff: report

A close Trump ally is pushing federal investigators to go after a Democratic senator, and he isn't stopping with her. Mike Davis , founder and president of the conservative Article III Project, sent a letter Wednesday asking the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to investigate Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), the Washington Examiner reported . The…

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