The Situation: The Case of Erez Reuveni

Benjamin Wittes
Sunday, July 13, 2025, 1:04 PM

What if America had checks and balances and nobody came?

The Situation on Wednesday predicted that the so-called investigation of John Brennan and James Comey will prove to be a ghost—not a real investigation at all, but one launched solely so that it could be announced.

Today let’s talk about Erez Reuveni, whose case should produce a real investigation but at least in the short-term almost certainly won’t.

A lot of people have been talking about Reuveni of late. He’s been denounced on national television by the attorney general and the White House deputy chief of staff. He’s been cited by Democratic members of the Senate as Exhibit A in why Justice Department official Emil Bove III should not be confirmed as an appeals court judge. He’s been interviewed by the New York Times and the New Yorker.

His story by now fits an increasingly common trope: an official—generally career but occasionally political—perfectly willing to defend or implement Trump administration policy is not willing to lie or cheat by way of doing so. So he or she runs afoul of the powers that be, often but not always in the form of that human embodiment of Trumpian Jacobinism, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Bove. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--the-case-of-erez-reuveni

DU's In It To Win kindly posted the transcript here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220506305

Let's make sure this story does not get lost due the Epstein files, we can manage each of them.