The email was sent in response to a Monday article written by Stern and Slate reporter Dhalia Lithwick, which referred to Whitaker as "a historically awful attorney general" and "one of the least qualified individuals to serve as attorney general in American history."
Whitaker previously served as chief of staff to former AG Jeff Sessions. He was appointed as acting AG after Sessions' ouster in November. Former US Attorney General William Barr has been nominated as a permanent replacement for Sessions.
In the article, Stern and Lithwick referenced a number of controversial items from Whitaker's past, including his targeting of an openly gay lawmaker while US Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa; his disparaging of the Mueller probe before joining the DOJ; and serving on the board of a firm, World Patent Marketing, that was shut down by the FTC.
In the email, Marci pushed back on the authors' arguments that Whitaker's prosecution of a gay lawmaker was "vindictive and possibly homophobic," claimed her husband had no idea World Patent Marketing was scamming its customers, and said there was no way he could railroad the Mueller probe at its current stage in the investigation.
"Why would a person need to recuse oneself for that mild statement?" Marci said of Whitaker's previous suggestion that an attorney general could shut down by the Mueller probe by defunding it.
"By all means, assume that a person who speculated on a hypothetical scenario would then put some dark plan into motion, when by all accounts, the investigation is wrapping up and they [sic] eyes of the nation are upon them. Yeah, thats pretty realistic," she added.
"Are you hoping that all future appointees qualifications are to have sat at a desk and pushed paper around for 30 years? Is life experience, both good and bad, somehow disqualifying?," her email continued. "Matt is a really good person and is only serving his country. Hes also going to be back in the private sector at some point."
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