Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York assigned to get UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s assassin Luigi Mangione convicted and subsequently executed argued to the court on Wednesday that it’s not that big of a deal for convicted felon President Trump and top Justice Department officials like fascist shitbag Attorney General Pam Bondi to publicly make prejudicial statements about the case because Trump doesn’t know you’re not supposed to do that and DOJ leaders do know but they’re not the ones actually prosecuting it, so it’s fine, NBC reports.

“They operate entirely outside the scope of the prosecution team, possess no operational role in the investigative or prosecutorial functions of the Mangione matter, and are not ‘associated’ with this litigation,” said the prosecution team’s filing in response to SDNY Judge Margaret Garnett’s order for them to answer for the propaganda put out by DOJ leadership. Last month the fat bastard told Fox News that Mangione had “shot someone in the back as clear as you’re looking at me… He shot him right in the middle of the back – instantly dead… This is a sickness. This really has to be studied and investigated,” which was then posted by one of the eight or so MAGA White House Twitter accounts manned by taxpayer-funded federal government employees. That video was then reposted by reposted by Chad Gilmartin, deputy director of the Justice Department’s public affairs division, who wrote that Trump “is absolutely right,” prompting prosecutors call him to take it down, which he did.