Two days after learning Donald Trump's Justice Department tried and failed to push criminal charges, meritless criminal charges, against two members of this body and four members of the House of Representatives. The President of the United States tried to throw two US Senators in jail, senators of the opposite party, simply because Trump didn't like what they said. It's good these indictments failed. The grand jury, average citizens, in a rare moment, saw through these attacks on free speech and rejected what the prosecutors asked them to do. (05:48–06:00)
CLAIM
Asserts that Trump attempted to jail two opposing party Senators for their speech.
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