Josh Shapiro

It's up to the chief prosecutor to listen to their stories, to stand for victims, and to fight for them.

And what I continue to see out of the Trump administration are a group of people that are there trying to protect the president, who's named thousands, although I think Congressman Raskin recently said up to a million times in these documents.

and a whole bunch of other powerful people who were abusing young women and abusing the power that they had in life and i think it is important that we have prosecutors that stand with victims that hold the perpetrators accountable and i'm not seeing that coming out of dc right now right can you just imagine though you're sitting there you're in congress

I think if you're in these roles, you've got to stand with the victims.

You've got to stand up for the rule of law.

You've got to stand against the powerful who so oftentimes take advantage of the people.

And there was a clear opportunity to do that yesterday, and that did not happen.

It was a failure in leadership.

But to me, it's in many ways

notwithstanding the importance of those hearings, in many ways, that was performative.

It's the hard work that prosecutors do behind the scenes to stand up for victims.

It's the hard work prosecutors do behind the scenes to hold the powerful accountable.

And that is what I am not seeing coming out of the Trump administration.

You sound like Professor Ben right now.

I try, I try, I try.

No, but let me give you a real life example of how this played out in Pennsylvania and juxtapose that with what we're seeing in Fulton County.

Back in 2020, I'll just remind you, you and I talked about it a lot at the time, Donald Trump and his enablers

sued me in Pennsylvania 43 different times to try and throw out the votes of legal eligible voters here in Pennsylvania.

He went oh and 43, I went 43 and oh, and we had a free and fair, safe and secure election.

In one of those cases, there were these bogus affidavits, these bogus statements that the Trump folks were relying on that were introduced in court