Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) fired back at right-wingers on Monday after they threatened her staff and implied she could be shot for saying future corruption probes into Trump administration allies could deter young conservatives from going to work for the White House.

The Michigan Democrat slammed the backlash from Republicans and conservative influencers who, she pointed out, have cheered from the sidelines as President Donald Trump leverages the justice system against his political foes.

“Spare me the pearl-clutching — especially from Republican Members of Congress and online MAGA grifters who have cheered President Trump’s weaponization of the government against those he doesn’t like,” she said in a statement posted on social media.

The right was furious over the weekend after clips circulated from Slotkin’s Oct. 13 appearance on Vox’s podcast “America, Actually,” when she told host Astead Herndon that she saw growing American outrage over corruption and hoped to find bipartisan allies in Congress to tackle the issue.

If Democrats win control of Capitol Hill in the midterm elections, Slotkin said, she’d want to focus on investigating “signature cases” of corruption extending beyond the president to the people who “enabled” him. Those probes, she added, might serve as a deterrent for anyone looking for a job in the Trump administration.

“I want young people coming out of school … to be like: Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that,” Slotkin said during the Oct. 13 appearance. “I want that deterrence message sent.”

Slotkin’s comments sparked immediate outrage from right-wingers, who accused her of endorsing politically motivated prosecutions of young conservatives.

Mike Davis, a conservative lawyer and political strategist who was a key adviser to the second Trump administration on judicial nominations, penned an op-ed for Fox News in which he said Slotkin should be investigated by the Justice Department and Senate ethics officials for her “treacherous” statement, which he claimed would have a chilling effect on people working in the Trump White House.

On X, Davis took things a step further.

“If [Slotkin] deploys these fascist tactics, like illegal arrests and political persecutions to intimidate young Americans with opposing political views, she will learn why we have the Second Amendment,” he said in a post. “Fuck her and her CIA tactics.”

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) accused former Trump adviser Mike Davis of “mobilizing death threats against me and my staff for sport.”

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Other online right-wingers targeted the senator’s staff. One conservative poster shared the names and images of a dozen people they identified as Slotkin’s employees to their more than half a million X followers. And Wade Miller, executive director of the conservative think tank the Center for Renewing America, declared that every Slotkin staffer should face “an avalanche of subpoenas” to hammer home a signal that “the purpose of government is not to target those you disagree with.”

“Slotkin should be censured by the Senate and then charged with treason,” said The Federalist’s Sean Davis. “She is a Bolshevik terrorist, and this type of behavior cannot be tolerated in a free society.”

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) called Slotkin’s comments “absolutely disgraceful,” saying that she had “threaten[ed] young Americans for participating in politics.”

A furious Slotkin replied in a statement Sunday night, saying the right-wing outrage over her anti-corruption message was disingenuous.

“President Trump has turned the government against people, with raucous support from you and virtually all D.C. Republicans. So spare us the manufactured outrage,” she posted on social media.

And, responding directly to Davis on Monday, Slotkin accused the conservative legal activist of “mobilizing death threats against me and my staff for sport.” The senator argued the right-wing outrage was a “coordinated right-wing media play” to move the spotlight off Republicans in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections.

“The threats and intimidation — of me, my staff, and my family — *are the point* of this kind of play,” wrote Slotkin. “This dude and so many others are just hoping that we’ll shut up in response.”

Davis did not respond to a request for comment. But in a reply on X, he again claimed Slotkin “explicitly called for prosecutions of Trump officials” to keep young conservatives out of the administration.

“Listen, sweetheart,” he chided. “You’re not the victim.”

Slotkin, meanwhile, doubled down on her message that Trump officials and allies should be investigated for corruption. “This shouldn’t be controversial: if you aid in stealing taxpayer money or directing it to enrich President Trump or his family, then you should be held accountable for that crime,” she said Sunday. “That’s what I said, and I stand by it.”

The Michigan Democrat and former CIA analyst has herself been a target of the Trump administration’s prosecution machine. The Justice Department tried to indict her and several other Democratic lawmakers last year after they posted a video clip urging U.S. service members not to obey illegal orders from the White House, alleging the lawmakers had committed an act of seditious conspiracy.