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Pete Buttigieg on Trump pardons and Howard Lutnick: a delayed Michigan-Canada bridge and possible corruption

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In an interview with The New Yorker, Pete Buttigieg says the bridge between Michigan and Canada was delayed, "evidently, because a Trump super PAC donor got to Howard Lutnick." He also points to the victims of fraudsters pardoned by President Trump and to companies that "somehow" got exemptions for toxic chemicals or dangerous food and drug products. He says there is "potentially a relationship" between those policies and the corruption.

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Who
Pete Buttigieg
Where
interview - The New Yorker Radio Hour with David Remnick
Original footage
The New Yorker · watch the full video from this moment
Length
37 seconds, unedited within the cut
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I'm thinking of everything from the bridge between here in Michigan and Canada that got delayed, evidently, because a Trump super PAC donor got to Howard Lutnick to what happened to the victims of fraudsters who have been pardoned by President Trump and how all of that came about. The ability for companies to get, somehow, get an exemption to put toxic chemicals in the air or in the ground or get a pass on dangerous food or drug products. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. And there is potentially a relationship between those bad policies that hurt people and the corruption.

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