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Richard Blumenthal: “The president of United States then Donald Trump mounted a pressure campaign that was absolutely relentless, brutal…”

On the recordAugust 8, 2021
The president of United States then Donald Trump mounted a pressure campaign that was absolutely relentless, brutal, personally involved, directly aimed at the Department of Justice seeking to break and weaponize it to overthrow the election. Only the Department of Justice refusing to break, standing up to him, was the means to avoid that kind of catastrophe.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut
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msnbc.com

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Blumenthal describes Trump's pressure campaign on the DOJ to overturn the election results.

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