WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.), along with every Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are demanding answers from Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Trump Administration's continued abuse of taxpayer funds to reward President Trump's political allies through settlement agreements despite repeatedly assuring Congress, federal courts, and the American people that the Justice Department (DOJ) no longer intended to pay out settlements through any slush fund.
"The strong public and political backlash to the illegal Anti-Weaponization Fund was animated by a repulsion to the concept that the President's political allies - inc...