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Dick Durbin: “Look at the progression of events, first, the onslaught of lawsuits going through the judiciary with many of the judges…”

On the recordAugust 9, 2021
Look at the progression of events, first, the onslaught of lawsuits going through the judiciary with many of the judges that he appointed, then he went to the Department of Justice, he decided he would manipulate the Attorney General into really initiating an investigation into particular states. And we know what happened then, he turned the mob loose on the United States Capitol. So we shouldn`t dismiss this as just a bad day for Donald Trump. It was a conscious plan strategy that did not work.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Durbin describes the events leading up to and including the January 6 Capitol riot as a planned strategy by Trump.

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