Sheldon Whitehouse: DoJ Was Not Weaponized Against Trump; Trump Is a Criminal

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WHITEHOUSE: “It would not surprise me, but can we start with the beginning, big lie in all of this, which is the question of whether DoJ was weaponized? The question of DoJ being weaponized, and for instance, New York prosecutors and Georgia prosecutors all being part of some weaponization thing, is simply the counternarrative to the fact of the matter, which is that Trump is a criminal. And if you — who got caught and had to do all sorts of wheedling and weaseling to get out of it where he could, and in other places was either found guilty or found liable. So, you know, behind all of this is an effort to scrub out the underlying fact that the guy that they’re supporting, the head of this cult, is, in fact, a criminal. And when you can’t admit that, you’ve got to go after the prosecutors, and then you get into this cascade of rhetorical consequence that opens up the door for turning that office into the actual weapon that you’re pretending it was against Trump.”