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Former GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander says DOJ "anti-weaponization" fund "smells pretty fishy to me"
Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander served as a U.S. senator, governor, and secretary of education, and ran for president in 1996 and 2000. He chronicles his six decades in politics in his new book, "The Education of a Senator: From JFK to Trump." Alexander joins to assess the state of the GOP under President Trump.
What happened
According to CBS News’s source item, Former GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander says DOJ “anti-weaponization” fund “smells pretty fishy to me”, Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander served as a U.S. senator, governor, and secretary of education, and ran for president in 1996 and 2000. He chronicles his six decades in politics in his new book, “The Education of a Senator: From JFK to Trump.” Alexander joins to assess the state of the GOP under President Trump.
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Primary source: Former GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander says DOJ “anti-weaponization” fund “smells pretty fishy to me” via CBS News. VINI cites and links the source; it does not reproduce the publisher’s full article text without rights clearance.
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- Former GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander says DOJ "anti-weaponization" fund "smells pretty fishy to me"CBS News - 2026-05-21T22:40:15+00:00
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