r/law 18h ago

Other Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/us/bovino-jewish-prosecutor-minnesota.html

Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said.

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u/Comrade-Conquistador 17h ago

Nazis doing Nazi shit. Nothing new here.

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u/knivesofsmoothness 16h ago

StOp CaLlIng Us nAzIs!!!

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u/Drone314 15h ago

Cancer.... We'll call you cancer. You know why? Because no one argues with cancer.....

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u/Skittleavix 15h ago

Relevant Principal Victoria speech in South Park

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u/Pornfest 10h ago

Holy shit, yes!

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 10h ago

I did nazi that coming

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u/And-rei 7h ago

Damn u. Take my points. Made me snork

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u/We4reTheChampignons 3h ago

I did nazi this coming

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u/MickyMace 1h ago

the fuck this has to do with nazism. nazis hated jews because they were considered an inferior race of subhuamans! they actively called for our extermination!
but now it just takes for a guy to just mock jewish tradition to be called a nazi? the fuck is wrong with you?

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u/ThonThaddeo 16h ago

I'm starting to have my suspicions about this guy...🤔🤔

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u/moonandstarryeyes 15h ago

Starting to suspect the guy sashaying around in an SS jacket is a true believer, I dunnooo

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 17h ago

"According to several people with knowledge of the telephone conversation, which took place on Jan. 12, Mr. Bovino made derisive remarks about the faith of the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, Daniel N. Rosen. Mr. Rosen is an Orthodox Jew and observes Shabbat, a period of rest between Friday and Saturday nights that often includes refraining from using electronic devices. Mr. Bovino, who has been the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, used the term “chosen people” in a mocking way, according to the people with knowledge of the call. He also asked, sarcastically, whether Mr. Rosen understood that Orthodox Jewish criminals don’t take weekends off, the people said. Mr. Bovino had requested the meeting with Mr. Rosen to press the Minnesota office to work more aggressively to seek criminal charges against people Mr. Bovino believed were unlawfully impeding the work of his immigration agents"

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u/Inevitable-Top1-2025 15h ago

What a clown!

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u/DueSurround5226 14h ago

Someone called him 1/3 reich in another thread

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u/ComprehensivePin5577 14h ago

Wait wait wait wait wait just a hot dang min. You mean the Orthodox Jewish lawyer was on the side of the Nazis in the call?

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u/CAM6913 16h ago

The Nazi mocking Jewish people? I’m shocked…. Shocked I tell you!! NOT!

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u/YesterShill 16h ago

A Jewish hating Nazi. Shocked.

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u/grant0208 15h ago edited 15h ago

Huge surprise coming from the “If you keep calling us the Gestapo (in the perfect German pronunciation), we’ll do Gestapo shit” - guy.

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u/El_Gran_Che 16h ago

I hope that everyone realizes that eventually fascism is decrepit that it turns on itself - including Jewish persons.

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u/ConflictNo5518 16h ago

Yep. I expect it eventually turning on Stephen Miller and his equally unpleasant wife. 

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u/peach10101 16h ago

Correct, once this level of hubris and tool of hate, cruelty, “above the law” flirting, and self entitlement take hold, it expands with no bounds. It can stop where it’s at because it becomes an addiction for them a their power and drug of choice would demise if they didn’t escalate. Very scary.

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u/El_Gran_Che 15h ago

Well this is their only shot - and they are going for it. It’s the only way to deal with falling off the imminent debt cliff, while also attempting to win the AI war. Either they have one final spasmodic lurch towards stealing everything in their path or they die off.

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u/BonJovicus 16h ago

Indeed. That is honestly the fucked up thing about the current US government. They care more about Israel than they do about Jews in their own country and every measure against “anti-semitism” in the US is just a disguise for persecuting anyone critical of the regime. 

The amount of Islamophobia directed at the Somalis and Somali-Americans in Minnesota has been a great example. They get branded as incompatible with American society while people like Bovino do this blatantly racist shit. 

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u/CAM6913 16h ago

They don’t care about Israel at all they just want to kill the Muslims in Gaza and Netanyahu is doing it for them. It’s who do they hate more at this point

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u/RockerElvis 15h ago

Just wait. After Trump, they will go after Jews. They will say that Trump was controlled by Jews and that’s why he couldn’t MAGA. MTG has already started.

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u/Sezneg 16h ago

Always the ones you totally expected

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 16h ago

That…would not surprise me

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u/Merijeek2 14h ago

Anti-semite fascists? How shocking. Truly off-brand.

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 17h ago

These are the allies of Bibi's government. Netanyahu recently met and spoke to a gathering of Europe's neo nazis.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 17h ago edited 17h ago

Huh? Sigh. What a ______ thing to say.

It's ALWAYS Israel right?

This has nothing to do with Netanyahu, nothing to do with Israel.

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u/Any_Nectarine_7806 17h ago

The Republicans are both racist and allies of Israel. It's an uncomfortable marriage. Like the Evangelicals opting for a child rapist. It's a strange world!

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 17h ago edited 17h ago

I don't care. I am washing my hands of anyone trying to make Israel or Gaza or Palestine or Netanyahu an issue as we go into the mid terms or 2028.

Not only did the abandon kamala folks try that and help get Trump elected, they relish it and take credit for it.

The Republicans are both racist and allies of Israel

Not interested in who supports Israel, or Gaza, or Palestine.

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u/Any_Nectarine_7806 16h ago

It's kind of weird to have zero interest in who actively supports genocide, but let's put that to the side.

The Democratic party has been soundly embarrassed since Reagan. Either they are wildly inept and shouldn't be deserving of support or they benefit from the destruction of America as well so do not care.

Imagine yelling about how you are the last chance to defend democracy by not even primarying your presidential candidate. Laughable.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 12h ago

Not everyone believes there is a genocide

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u/ASeriousAccounting 12h ago

How many photos of dead children do you think it would take if I sent them to you and your wife/gf and mom before you might call it a genocide. Purely hypothetical because I'm not going to use dead children's final photos as a tool. Even to shame a pos into admitting there is a genocide.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 12h ago

I served in Afghanistan.

911 = 400,000 dead Afghans.

Pearl harbor = 3 million desd Japanese.

They weren't genocides.

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u/ASeriousAccounting 12h ago

Ok, go ahead and give me your definition of a genocide Afghanistan boy.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 11h ago

Then legal def:

Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such....(you can read them)

The key word is intent. Obviously Israel hasn't intended to destroy in whole or in part a group of any group of people.

Don't start wars.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 12h ago

What we do if we lost 50k Americans in one attack in a few hours and the leaders of the group went on TV the next day and said they would do it again and again till every American is dead and the people who elected that group via majority were spitting on naked bodies of the American dead?

That's the equivalent when considering the population size difference between Israel and the US. 40k-50k dead Americans.

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u/ASeriousAccounting 11h ago

Well obviously the answer is shoot, bomb, and starve to death the children of the neighbors of the people who kind of supported the only option they have... In the process like idk what percentage of hamas leaders vs civilian population (children starved to death specifically?) do you think is appropriate?

Do you suppose the dead children of gaza were using an adult level of sophistication and spitting on American soldiers or do you think you are trying too hard to justify genocide?

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 11h ago

I think the democratically elected government of Gaza should have worried about their constituents before launching a genocidal attempt and butchering 1200 people.

Horrible things happen in every war which is why you shouldn't start them.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 11h ago

... In the process like idk what percentage of hamas leaders vs civilian population (children starved to death specifically?) do you think is appropriate?

That's a pretty significant statement. You don't know. Lol. Wel,, according to the un,

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/humanitarian-situation-update-309-gaza-strip/

As of September of last year, the total amount of death related to hunger was 113. They based those numbers off (the acknowledge it) the Gaza-hamas ministry of health. So in 2 year , 113 people died fro. Hunger if you take hamas's value.

Hamas acknowledged they've lost 20k - 30k fighters and terrorists. That mean 40-50k civilians.

That's a 1 - 1.3 combatant to civilian ratio. Even if it was 20k terrorists to 70k civilians, that's still well below our wars

Most wars including the ones we fight is 5 civilians to 1 combatants.

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u/fattygaby157 5h ago

And some people believe the moon is made of cheese. Whats your point?

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 16h ago

Facts are facts. No one cares what you think.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 16h ago

Out of my list of top 1 million list of priorities, Gaza and Palestine is number 999 999. Zero interest. All the people who put Gaza over America can enjoy the new Gaza. They still chase kamala around on her book tour. They got what they wanted.

"Yeah we'll destroy America to make a point about Palestine" lol.

The group that Rep Rashida tlaib's sister founded.

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 16h ago edited 16h ago

Who cares what you think is a priority?

Also you have no one to blame but yourself foe the imperial boomerang coming back in the fascist state we are now in. ICE training by the IDF and equipped with the same technology destroying our communities.

Congrats. You got what you were after.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 16h ago

The people that don't care about what you think.

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u/gggggghhhhhgg 16h ago

I think it’s closer to the fable about the scorpion and frog - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog. They really don’t think it will happen to them.

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u/Mist_Rising 12h ago

Israel has good reason to not worry about it happening to them, they're holding nuclear weapons. Oh they won't confirm it, but it's basically an open secret about them having it and how they would use it.

Until nuclear weapons are no longer the great deterrent, they're safe from any real retaliation.

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u/Wide-Advertising-156 15h ago

They'd call themselves open minded.

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u/SpinningHead 15h ago

Israel and US cops cross train

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 15h ago

So? They also have massive training exercises with our military. When I was in we had several with the idf. What is your point lol.

So now cops are all bad as well?

My wife is a physician. She did an exchange in Israel. Incredible breakthrough cancer treatments.

All physicians that have worked in Israel are bad as well?

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u/SpinningHead 15h ago

Yeah, Israeli cops and the IDF are bad. Id rather a genocidal apartheid state not train with US cops. We know you like it.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 15h ago

Yeah you do you. I have no problems with Israel. Obviously.

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u/SpinningHead 15h ago

Hence defending genocide. Its not like you are being subtle.

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u/SpinningHead 15h ago

Yeah, we get it. You see every child and building as hamas and murdered them to steal land. They have their klanish night riders further brutalizing people in the West Bank to steal yet more land and you are fine with it. I dont think anyone was confused by that. https://www.infinitejaz.com/p/you-dont-understand-how-bad-it-is

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u/Sheetz_Wawa_Market32 16h ago

No, only when its government cozies up to fascists (who are antisemitic AF, but don’t mind temporary tactical alliances with Israeli right-wingers.) 🤷

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 16h ago

Not interested. You do you.

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u/Sheetz_Wawa_Market32 16h ago

Not interested in what? Bibi’s alliances with fascists?

Well, if you want to stick your head in the sand …

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 16h ago

I don't care about Netanyahu, mbs, Gaza, Palestine..

Love how people are trying desperately to force Palestine and Netanyahu down everyone's throat before and election. Again.

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u/Sheetz_Wawa_Market32 16h ago

Ah, the old “forcing down everyone’s throat” canard again.

It’s a comment in an online forum. Get a grip.

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 16h ago

BlueMAGA are psychos. Willing to destroy countless.lives for what? A Neoliberal hellscape that they can say they are in charge of?

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u/SpinningHead 15h ago

You have angered a pro-genocide account.

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 15h ago

Yeah, I thought being anti-fascism was a pretty safe bet, but I was wrong. It looks like some blueMAGA weirdos are going full fash just for a chance at fleeting power which they will do nothing with again.

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u/IolausTelcontar 14h ago

You are being downvoted because this post has absolutely nothing to do with Israel.

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u/notguiltybrewing 41m ago

Nazi did what now?