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Far-Left Pundit ‘Really Worried’ He Could ‘Get Snatched Up Off The Street’ By Trump Admin For His Articles

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The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal said during a Thursday interview that he is truly concerned about President Donald Trump’s administration snatching him up over his articles.

The Trump administration on March 25 detained Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student and Turkish citizen, who co-wrote a 2024 op-ed for her school’s newspaper criticizing Israel, The New York Times reported. Mystal, on “The Breakfast Club,” expressed fear that he could be detained for his articles, despite being born in the United States.

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“Look, guys, we live in a country where you can get snatched up off the street for writing an article in the newspaper. And as a person who writes articles in newspapers, this is something that has really worried me and really changed and affected how I think about my job and my life,” Mystal said. “And we can say, ‘Well, it only happened to green card holders.’ Yeah, now. So far. How long before it happens to me? I’m an American. I was born in Queens, right?”

Ozturk had a student visa that the Trump administration revoked after alleged pro-Hamas activism, Fox News reported.

“When I’m doing book events now, I have security, right, which is not something I did for my first book, right? When I write, I think about like how — when I write about [Elon] Musk especially ’cause he’s the one with so much power — I write very truthfully about him, but carefully,” Mystal added. “I use all of my legal skills when I’m writing about Musk to be very careful about what I’m saying because I know that he will sue people and he will go after people.”

Mystal’s latest headlines for The Nation include “The Trump-Musk Regime Wants to Make Segregation Great Again” and “Trump Is Trying to Create His Own Personal Legal Strike Force.”

He also told “The View” co-hosts Tuesday that all laws passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be deemed “presumptively unconstitutional,” claiming America was “functionally an apartheid country” before its passage. The Civil Rights-era law barred racial discrimination at the ballot boxes.

The correspondent also accused the Trump administration on “The View” of citing so-called racial laws passed before the Civil Rights Movement to justify arresting non-citizens who may pose a threat to the U.S.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on March 6 that the U.S. has “zero tolerance” for any foreign visitor who supports terrorist organizations such as Hamas and would face visa revocation and deportation under U.S. law.