Matt Schlapp: “One of the things they said to me through my lawyer from the…”

“You're the subject of investigations for years and years and years. When you're a Democrat and you work in the White House, you get a book deal. It's asymmetrical, to say the least. One of the things they said to me through my lawyer from the FBI is that in the unending series of investigations was if I had any dirt on my boss or on the president I served, if I turned it over, they let me go and turn down the heat. That doesn't sound American to me. It doesn't sound constitutional to me. We're going to have people on this stage who got pardons thanks to your department and President Trump who had prosecutions going on from two and three federal investigators at the same time.” (13:20–13:38)

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