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“I’m proud of him for standing up for all of us,” Scott said in a TV interview outside the courthouse. “If they can go after the former president, they can go after you.”Senators frequently miss votes for a variety of reasons, but this might be the first instance of one being absent to attend somebody else’s criminal trial.
“I’m fed up. I watched what happened to me and my company,” Scott said. “I’ve talked to business people over the years and what’s happened to them when you have political persecution.” Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a former Democratic congresswoman trying to unseat Scott in November, blasted him for sucking up to Trump.“As the man who oversaw one of the largest Medicare frauds in history and pleaded the 5th 75 times, Rick Scott finds himself once again in a courtroom today … this time followinglike a fan waiting for a selfie,” Mucarsel-Powell said in a written statement.
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