Edward Markey: “He wants the $1.8 billion slush fund.”

“And he needs someone like this guy who is completely unqualified to sign off on those kinds of intrusions into the electoral process in our country. And that's why He wants the $1.8 billion slush fund. It's to pay off the people who were trying to compromise the election of 2020. The insurrectionists, the Proud Boys, the latter day KKK.” (02:35–02:41)

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