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Channel GOP · Hearing · Saturday, October 31, 2026

Goldman asks a sheriff about a murder victim's mother.

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Now playing on All Clips Goldman asks a sheriff about a murder victim's mother. Dan Goldman271 plays Watch on Instagram · Transcript & source

At a congressional hearing, Rep. Dan Goldman says the sheriff, a witness called by Republicans, previously acknowledged "a brief consensual relationship" with the mother of a murder victim, and says he supervised that case as a captain in the office he now runs. Goldman says it goes to the witness's credibility. The sheriff tells him he should be ashamed, calls him a degenerate, and doesn't answer the questions about her or the case.

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Who
Dan Goldman
Where
hearing - congressional hearing on sanctuary laws
Original footage
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Length
57 seconds, unedited within the cut
Plays
271 on Instagram
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Correct? Yes. Now in the spring of 2015, you had sexual relations with a woman named Mirella Masciarelli at the Turning Point Resort Casino. Correct? Only a degenerate politician like you would bring this up. Yes or no? Did you? Only a degenerate politician like you would bring up. Well, you previously here, Sarah Fakshaw, you previously acknowledged, quote, having a brief consensual relationship with Miss Mashiarella. What is, who is Miss Mashiarella? How did you meet her? You really should be ashamed of yourself to bring something like this up at a hearing like this. Well, sir, I think it's very relevant to your credibility because Miss Mashiarella was the mother of a murder victim, correct? You're a degenerate. And you supervise that case when you are a captain in the same sheriff's office that you now run, correct? You're a degenerate. All right.

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