Mary Gay Scanlon: “Giving Trump and his family a gold plated get out of jail…”

“Stealing taxpayer dollars to create a $1.8 billion slush fund to make payoffs to Trump loyalists who've been convicted of serious crimes. And Giving Trump and his family a gold plated get out of jail free card with the settlement agreement that the President's lawyer just signed. The Department of Justice's blatantly political prosecution and this committee's attacks against the state Southern Poverty Law center signaled the revival of an old authoritarian playbook to vilify and discredit those working to combat hate and protect people from oppression.” (07:25–07:34)

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