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On the recordJuly 30, 2023
This is the taxpayer funded defense and political arm of Donald Trump. The fact that a three committee Congressional investigation is looking into the plea deal of a private citizen, by the way, a plea deal that was entered into by a Trump appointed U.S. attorney who President Biden kept on to ensure the independence of the investigation that they would now actually use taxpayer funds in order to investigate a plea deal is absolutely preposterous, and just demonstrates how far afield this Republican Party is from the American people and what they care about.
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Dan Goldman
Democratic · New York

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Goldman criticizes the Republican investigation into Hunter Biden's plea deal, framing it as a misuse of taxpayer funds for political purposes.

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