At a Senate hearing, Senator Van Hollen asks Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to commit that a man pardoned by the president, who the senator says went on to molest two children and tried to buy their silence with money he hoped to get from the fund, will not be eligible for a payout. Blanche says the senator is "obviously lying." Van Hollen responds that he is reporting what the man himself said.
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- Who
- Senator Van Hollen
- Where
- hearing - Senate oversight hearing with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
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- 55 seconds, unedited within the cut
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there is also an individual who after being pardoned by the president went on to molest two children. And that person actually tried to buy the silence of these children by saying that he would pay them some of the funds that he was hoping to get from your slush fund. Can you commit to making the rule so that that person is not eligible for a payout under this fund? Well you're obviously lying in your question because there's no way that this person committed to that. The slush fund as you call it which is not, didn't it? I'm sure but I can commit. Mr. Attorney General, don't ever do that again. I am reporting what he said. He said on the expectation that he hoped to get some of the funds from a payout. He's been involved in here. You said from the flush fund, Senator, and that didn't exist when he said that.
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