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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tucker Carlson Show, we bring you stories that have not been |
0:14.4 | showcased anywhere else and they're not censored of course because we're not |
0:18.8 | gatekeepers we are honest brokers here to tell you what we think you need to know and do it |
0:24.0 | honestly check out all of our content at Tucker Carlson.com here's the |
0:28.4 | episode you hear a lot from the people who run Washington about the rule of law and its importance but of course |
0:34.7 | the law unevenly applied is not justice it's by definition tyranny so with that in mind the following |
0:41.6 | back in 2012 12 years ago, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder |
0:45.5 | was held in contempt of Congress after refusing to provide Justice Department |
0:49.7 | documents detailing the Obama administration's handling of the Fast and Furious scandal. |
0:54.4 | You may remember all of this. |
0:55.9 | So that happened. |
0:56.9 | Holder cited executive privilege, as many have before, to justify withholding these communications, |
1:01.9 | protecting them, because they were executive branch communications. |
1:05.9 | For that he was held in criminal contempt, but it was meaningless. Nothing ever happened to Eric Holder. In fact he became even more popular in |
1:14.3 | Washington. His cocktail schedule was not interrupted even for a day. The U.S. attorney in D.C. cited the country's |
1:20.8 | longstanding practice of not enforcing contempt charges to let |
1:24.8 | Holder off Scott free because again he invoked executive privilege and that's a |
1:29.3 | constitutionally murky area no one has ever been prosecuted for it. Of course the Justice |
1:34.2 | Department which Holder led refused to prosecute him and then Barack Obama |
1:38.5 | invoked executive privilege to protect him as well. So that's what happened then. So fast forward 11 years and |
1:46.7 | Steve Bannon tried roughly the same thing. Bannon of course was President Trump's |
1:50.7 | former chief political strategist and he was ordered after he tried it to |
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