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Peggy Flanagan: “Trump pardoned 70 white collar criminals who were…”

Featuring: Peggy Flanagan, Democratic–Farmer–Labor | Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 01:59

We've got, you know, Donald Trump who has right out of the gate he fired 17 inspectors general whose entire job it is to police fraud at the federal level. I would absolutely insist that those folks were reinstated. He after also Trump pardoned 70 white collar criminals who were responsible for billions of dollars in fraud and Medicaid and Medicare. We have to make sure that those folks can't just simply be let go. But that as this guy and Donald Trump is making deals with these individuals, essentially for them to be able to commit these crimes and walk away, it's outrageous. (01:59–02:11)

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