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Elissa Slotkin: “The perpetrator went on social media and bragged about it…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Slotkin announces Drain the Slush Fund Act

Published | Video Starts at 01:34

So a guy in this building who tased a cop on January 6, that police officer went on to have a heart attack. He suffered traumatic brain injury. The perpetrator went on social media and bragged about it. And because of that, because he owned up to it, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. President Trump pardoned him. And now he would be an example of someone who would be trying to drain this slush fund of American taxpayer dollars. (01:34–01:43)

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Asserts that the perpetrator bragged on social media and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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