Ayanna Pressley: “Judges across our country have consistently ruled, in fact…”

“Today's hearing is the first one convened by the so called Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses. And yet we are ignoring the fact that Donald Trump is the single largest threat to our Constitution. And Judges across our country have consistently ruled, in fact, that [Donald Trump] has violated the law. And when it comes to institutional abuses, Trump created a $1.8 billion fund to directly send taxpayer dollars to his friends and political allies. That is what I call fraud.” (00:15–00:22)

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