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Trump MAGA Rep Hauls Miller Protest Prosecutor in For Secret Grilling

House Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan wants the prosecutor who shielded a chalk protester near Stephen Miller’s home questioned in private.

Donald Trump’s MAGA buddy Jim Jordan wants the prosecutor who protected Stephen Miller’s chalk-wielding neighbors dragged into a closed-door deposition away from public view, PunchUp reports. The Trump loyalist and House Judiciary Committee chairman, 62, has spent months pursuing Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, the elected top prosecutor for Arlington County and the City of Falls Church, over her handling of a retired peace studies professor who chalked slogans and handed out flyers near Miller’s home. Police concluded the protest was “non-threatening.” Jordan served Dehghani-Tafti with a subpoena on July 1, compelling her to appear at a closed-door deposition on July 16, as the Daily Beast’s new sister investigations’ Substack, PunchUp, reported. The prosecutor says she never refused to talk. She offered to answer every question in public. Jordan said no. “I don’t know why the Committee is afraid to speak with me in the open,” Dehghani-Tafti told PunchUp in a statement. Her attorney, veteran Washington defense lawyer Abbe Lowell, accused the committee of ducking daylight because “it is too afraid of the answers Ms. Dehghani-Tafti will give before an open and public hearing.” No one from the chalk group has been charged. That didn’t stop Stephen’s wife, Katie Miller, 34, from going on Fox News and calling the messages “terroristic.” The family listed their six-bedroom home—bought for around $2.8 million in 2023—for $3.75 million and decamped to military housing. PunchUp reported in April that the activists behind that “boring” protest had branded the whole “embarrassing” saga a MAGA power play—accusing Miller, 40, of “weaponizing his victim complex,” and using the apparatus of the state for his personal ends.

Tom Latchem exposes the secrets, scandals, and stories that powerful people and institutions want to keep under wraps. Follow all of his reporting at PunchUp on Substack.