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Schiff slams Blanche 'He has sought to compensate cop-beaters with tax payer funds' · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: We should not confirm anyone so incompetent, someone so indifferent
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  Speaker 1: to the suffering of these victims, Someone who only met
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  Speaker 1: with them because he was going to be refused confirmation
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  Speaker 1: for his refusal to do so. Someone who met with
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  Speaker 1: the prime co conspirator of Epstein, Josey Maxwell, and sought
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  Speaker 1: exculpatory statements from her, brought no one of any experience
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  Speaker 1: with the case, who would do that as an experienced prosecutor,
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  Speaker 1: go interview someone in custody in a high profile case
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  Speaker 1: without bringing anyone who worked on that case, who could
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  Speaker 1: tell them the questions to ask, who could press them
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  Speaker 1: when they dissembled and lied, as this witness as a
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  Speaker 1: history of doing, and then oversees her transferred to a
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  Speaker 1: minimum security prison and gives us the false explanation here
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate that he did so to protect her
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  Speaker 1: from threats. Such a person should not be confirmed as
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  Speaker 1: an Attorney General. Number four, He has sought to compensate
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  Speaker 1: cop beaters with your money, with taxpayer funds. And I
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  Speaker 1: have to say again, nothing in this new signed document
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  Speaker 1: of the Attorney General, nothing in this stops the president
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  Speaker 1: from doing it. And the President has told us he
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  Speaker 1: fully intends to do this. Indeed, they're already paying off
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  Speaker 1: the president's cronies. Do you remember Michael Flynn, the erstwhile
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  Speaker 1: National security advisor to the president. He's already been paid
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  Speaker 1: one point two five million dollars of your taxpayer money.
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  Speaker 1: This is a guy who pled guilty twice, but guilty
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  Speaker 1: twice to line to the FBI about his contacts with
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  Speaker 1: the Russians, and he's already made one point two five
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  Speaker 1: million dollars off your money, not using this weaponization slush fund,
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  Speaker 1: but using the DOJ's Victim Fund, the Judgment Fund as
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  Speaker 1: a slush fund. And these cop beaters are already signaling
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  Speaker 1: their attention to file claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
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  Speaker 1: So even if the Weaponization Fund doesn't move forward, they
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  Speaker 1: are using the same mechanism to pay off these cop
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  Speaker 1: beaters and cronies of the President. And nothing in what
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blant sign is going to stop that. What will
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  Speaker 1: stop that is a statute passed by this committee in
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  Speaker 1: the Congress that prevents this, that prevents taxpayer funding from
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  Speaker 1: going to these cop beaters. That is the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that will prevent it, and we haven't done it. Number
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  Speaker 1: five this is an attorney gener who's violated the code
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  Speaker 1: of Ethics. Now that may seem like a small thing
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  Speaker 1: given all the other violations, but it ought to matter
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  Speaker 1: to us. He violated in this IRS slush fund tax
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  Speaker 1: settlement cases that Judge and Florida found and suspects and
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  Speaker 1: referred him to the Bar Association for his conduct in
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  Speaker 1: that collusive settlement. But more than that, during his testimony
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  Speaker 1: this committee, I asked him about comments he made to
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  Speaker 1: Seapac that Conservative convention. Remember those comments he made bragging
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  Speaker 1: about how there was in a single person left standing
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  Speaker 1: in the Justice Department of the FBI who had anything
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  Speaker 1: to do with the cases against Donald Trump, and how
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  Speaker 1: he was applauded at Seapack for that. And I asked him,
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  Speaker 1: how is that consistent with the ethics advice that you
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  Speaker 1: admitted to this committee you received from the Justice Department,
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  Speaker 1: that you have said you followed that told you you
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  Speaker 1: must recuse yourself from involvement in any case in which
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  Speaker 1: you've defended Donald Trump. How is that consistent? And his
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  Speaker 1: answer was, oh, I was just saying those things pack.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't saying I did it. I was just saying
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  Speaker 1: all those people got fired. But here's the thing. He
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  Speaker 1: did fire people involved in the cases against Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we are testimony last week of one of
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  Speaker 1: the people he fired. And here is this termination notice.
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  Speaker 1: This is Todd Blanche's signature on a notice of removal
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  Speaker 1: from federal service for Peter Carr. Peter Carr was one
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  Speaker 1: of the primary spokespeople for Jack Smith's investigation. He was
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  Speaker 1: the spokesperson against the president in the president's prosecution for
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  Speaker 1: inciting of allent attack on the Capitol. Todd Blanche writes,
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  Speaker 1: this memorandum serves as official notice that you're removed from
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  Speaker 1: your position a public affairs specialist with the Department of Justice,
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  Speaker 1: signed by Todd Blanche, recused from any involvement in firing
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  Speaker 1: anyone in the cases in which he defended the president.
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  Speaker 1: Firing someone involved in the cases in which he defended
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  Speaker 1: the president. So this is someone who has violated his
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  Speaker 1: code of ethics, blatantly misled this committee in testimony, supported
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  Speaker 1: the establishment of a fund for cock beaters, concealed and
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  Speaker 1: covered up documents implicating the president in the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: gone after the president's enemies, and used the DOJ to
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  Speaker 1: enrich the president in the collusive settlement. Is this who
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  Speaker 1: we're prepared to confirm his attorney general? It appears so.
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  Speaker 1: The fundamental problem with Todd Blanche is not that he's inexperienced,
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  Speaker 1: not that he's not capable, not that he's not intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: The problem with confirming Todd Blanche is that he has
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  Speaker 1: never been able to shed his role as criminal defense
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  Speaker 1: lawyer for Donald Trump. He just can't do it. He
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  Speaker 1: does not represent the American people now. He will never
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  Speaker 1: represent the American people. He will never do what's best
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  Speaker 1: for the American people. He will only do its best
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  Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. And you cannot leave someone like that
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  Speaker 1: as the nation's number one law enforcement official. Not when
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  Speaker 1: you have a corrupt president engaged in the most unprecedented
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  Speaker 1: self enriching schemes we have ever seen. You just can't
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  Speaker 1: do it. And hope to have anything left of the
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  Speaker 1: rule of law. I URGEENO vote on this confirmation, and
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  Speaker 1: I yield back