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Brooke Rollins: “One of the first things we did was drop those charges…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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Published | Video Starts at 03:48

The Forest Service showed up, arrested, indicted and basically said, you need to find someone else to raise your children because you're going to go to jail over this. And so this was in the last administration. So obviously when we got here, One of the first things we did was drop those charges [against the Maud family]. The criminal and the civil charges, et cetera. It goes to the larger question, sir, of the lawfare that and I believe this is nonpartisan. (03:48–03:52)

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Asserts that charges against the Maud family were dropped by the USDA.

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