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'Say something!' Trump nominee floors Dem after calling cops 'dumb as dirt'
Trump’s Police-Funding Nominee Treats Public Office Like a Troll FarmThe Real Job HereThis is not a story about an awkward hearing. It is a story about who gets to control hundreds of millions of federal dollars meant for police departments and criminal justice agencies, and who Trump chose to hand that power to: Konstantinos Ligris, a nominee who has publicly mocked police officers as “dumb as dirt” and unloaded on political targets from Tim Walz to Ilhan Omar.That is the institutional fact pattern. The Office of Justice Programs does not exist to reward internet volatility. It exists to…
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