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@maddow @SlaughterAM @senorrinhatch

https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1030067322071998464?s=21

In March 2017, Kavanaugh’s Whitewater partner Viet Dinh called Brian Benczkowski to “investigate” Trump Tower-Alfa Bank. Days later, Dinh donated to @OrrinHatch’s PAC. Hatch, of course, voted to confirm Benczkowski as Assistant AG, but there’s more...

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https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1040957415632633862?s=21

Dinh is also on the board of Scientific Games.

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In May, Hatch stated his intentions to introduce sports gambling legislation..:

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Hatch also wrote an editorial in May about his stricken PASPA. He needs a friendly SCOTUS to reinstate it.

@maddow @SlaughterAM @senorrinhatch @OrrinHatch Dinh was recently named Chief Counsel for 21st Century Fox. When he donated to Hatch (and @JeffFlake) in 2017, he was a 21st Century Fox board member (incidentally, serving with @SecElaineChao’s brother in law, Blackstone director Jim Breyer).

@maddow @SlaughterAM @senorrinhatch @OrrinHatch @JeffFlake @SecElaineChao That Kavanaugh’s (and Bill Burck’s, and Brian Benczkowski’s) partner Dinh is a 21st Century Fox executive puts the airtime Hatch’s opinions on Kavanaugh and his detractors received in a different light.

@maddow @SlaughterAM @senorrinhatch @OrrinHatch @JeffFlake @SecElaineChao Hatch wants his legacy to be sports gambling legislation; legislation that will likely either involve or benefit his fellow Federalist Society member Dinh.

Instead of a legacy, @OrrinHatch will have an asterisk

@maddow @SlaughterAM @senorrinhatch @OrrinHatch @JeffFlake @SecElaineChao *U.S. Senator who fought to confirm an alleged rapist to the United States Supreme Court.