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Dick Durbin: “Ed Martin led an unprecedented purge of dozens of career…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Speaks Against Extreme, Unqualified Trump U.S. Attorney Nominees

Published | Video Starts at 03:08

Last year, President Trump nominated people like Ed Martin, Alma Haba, Lindsey Halligan, and others who are not qualified for the post, but committed to carrying out his retribution campaign against President Trump's political enemies. As an interim U.S. attorney, Ed Martin led an unprecedented purge of dozens of career prosecutors in the Department of Justice and FBI agents. simply because they did their jobs investigating and prosecuting the attack on the U.S. capitol. (03:08–03:24)

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