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Expert alarmed as sordid prediction about Trump DOJ inching closer to coming true
The Justice Department as a Bargaining ChipWhat the story actually saysThe reporting here is not about a clean legal process. It is about a possible Trump Department of Justice deal, floated by Norman Ornstein and echoed by Tara Setmayer, in which Todd Blanche would allegedly trade leniency for Nicolás Maduro and his wife in exchange for a false claim that Venezuela interfered in the 2020 U.S. election. That is the entire shape of the story: an unsubstantiated allegation, a political workaround, and an administration supposedly willing to weaponize federal power to launder a lie.Follow the…
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