WATCH: MSNBC Host PANICS Over Trump’s Rumored Candidate For Attorney General

MSNBC was sounding the alarm last week after new reports indicating that former President Donald Trump has compiled a short list of picks for U.S. Attorney General if he returns to the White House.

Ana Cabrera, speaking next to an icon of Trump’s head blotting out the sun above the chyron “Be Alarmed,” said the Republican leader is intent on “weaponizing” the Department of Justice if he decides to select Kesh Patel, the former Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. The host reintroduced her audience to Patel before issuing her hot take, playing a clip of the attorney speaking about President Trump’s intent to target opponents in office and the media with criminal or civil penalties.

“Trump has not been shy about his intent to weaponize the DOJ and use it to go after his enemies, and we should probably take him at his word about it. I do think he is serious,” said Cabrera.

Citing a Truth Social post by Trump calling for the jailing of all members of the J6 congressional select committee, the host added that some of those targeted, such as Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), genuinely fear for their freedom. “One thing I did learn on the committee is to pay attention and listen to what Trump says, because he means it,” the congresswoman told the LA Times. “If he intends to eliminate our constitutional system and start arresting his political enemies, I guess I would be on that list.”

Cabrera played select clips of Patel on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, characterizing his comments as indicative of serious plans to arrest members of Congress.

“Patel laid out what he thinks would have to happen in order to empower him. He would have to clean house,” she said.

“The one thing we learned in the Trump administration the first go-around is we’ve gotta put in Americans patriots to to bottom,” he said.

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On Thursday the Biden administration released a new executive order that strengthens the ability of entrenched federal employees to keep their jobs, according to the AP. As part of its new powers, the Office of Personnel Management will bar an incoming administration from reclassifying thousands of federal employees and political appointees who may be dismissed by the president. Cabrera interpreted the move as an attempt by President Joe Biden to “Trump-proof” the government “so he can’t replace everyone in the federal branch with MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporters.”

If Trump is elected and unable to repeal the order, his attorney general “would have a much harder time going full banana republic,” she added.

Before, during, and following his time in office, President Trump railed against a Deep State apparatus that he claimed limited his ability to accomplish major reforms and continues to serve as a stumbling block for conservatives eager to overhaul large swaths of the executive branch. The former president has pointed to Biden Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting him in two criminal cases, as an example of the forces conspiring against him to throw him in jail before he can win the election in November.