At Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing, Sen. Adam Schiff asked whether Trump's lawyers, the Justice Department or the IRS wrote the settlement document. Blanche said it "would have been somebody within the Department of Justice" but "I don't know the name of the person that typed it up." Schiff says the terms are so favorable to Trump that it looks like Trump's lawyer wrote it.
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- Sen. Adam Schiff
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- hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee, Todd Blanche attorney general confirmation
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So I asked him about that. I asked him, who wrote this thing? So, who wrote this? I don't know the person that actually typed it. I don't know who it is. Was it one of the president's lawyers or was it someone from the Justice Department or IRS? This document would have been somebody within the Department of Justice. Well, you have no idea who that is. I don't know the name of the person that typed it up. So he didn't even know who wrote this thing. He surmised it was written by the Justice Department, which he was running, or the IRS, but he claimed not to know. And in fact, the terms are so favorable to the president, it's not a surprise he doesn't know because it looks like it was written by Trump's lawyer, not by the Justice Department, not by the IRS.
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