ABC’s Jon Karl Delivers Five-Alarm Warning About ‘Exodus’ of Prosecutors in Trump’s DOJ — Compares it to ‘The Darkest Days of Watergate’

ABC’s Jon Karl sounded the alarm about what he termed the “exodus” of prosecutors in President Donald Trump’s Justice Department — less than one month after the president began his second term.

In a weighty opening monologue on ABC’s This Week Sunday, Karl noted “the breathtaking actions which President Trump is taking” across the federal government. Specifically, he focused on what he called the “tense standoff” at the Justice Department over the DOJ’s order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. At least seven DOJ prosecutors have resigned after refusing to comply with the order.

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion,” wrote one prosecutor, Republican-appointed Danielle Sassoon, in her resignation letter. “But it was never going to be me.”

Karl, in his monologue Sunday, noted the right-wing bona fides of Sassoon — who clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — as he warned about the implications of the exodus of DOJ prosecutors by invoking a dark chapter in American history.

“The top prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, a highly-respected conservative who was appointed by Donald Trump, blasted the move [to drop charges against Adams] and she resigned in protest,” Karl said. “Six other career prosecutors followed her lead and resigned — an exodus that has drawn comparisons to the darkest days of Watergate.”

Watch above, via ABC.