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On the recordJune 20, 2023
Trump's hand-picked Attorney General Bill Barr, with whom I agree on very little, hit the nail on the head when he described the former President's legal troubles as entirely of his own making.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Schiff references Barr's statement on Trump's self-created legal issues.

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