What did Eric Holder say about Todd Blanche and the DOJ blocking election certification?

Eric Holder said Attorney General Todd Blanche's refusal to rule out DOJ involvement in state certification might sound benign from someone else, but he does not take Blanche at his word. Holder pointed to high-profile indictments brought in a period when the DOJ normally stays quiet, and to Trump's habit of calling every lost election fraudulent, as signs the department now acts as an arm of the White House and the RNC.

• Holder said that since Watergate the DOJ had acted independently of the White House under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
• Holder said Democrats have anticipated a DOJ move on certification and are ready to respond.

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“They don't come into this, as we say in the law, with clean hands.” Eric Holder · at 7:07 — open in the transcript →

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