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One of President Donald Trump’s nominees, who was up for the federal job of funding police departments across the country, refused Wednesday to apologize for calling cops “dumb as dirt.”<\/p>\n

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Konstantinos Ligris, Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs, faced a barrage of questions at his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the committee’s ranking member.<\/p>\n

The Office of Justice Programs oversees hundreds of millions in federal grants to police departments and criminal justice agencies nationwide.<\/p>\n

“You tweeted ‘s-ck it up, bro’ in response to a post discussing Senator [Tim] Kaine’s [(D-VA)] objections to the pardoning of January 6 rioters,” Durbin said, reading from Ligris’s social media record. “You referred to Governor [Tim] Walz [(D-MN)] of Minnesota as ‘Tampon Tim.’ You referred to Congresswoman [Ilhan] Omar [(D-MN)] as ‘not an American.’ You called Senator [Susan] Collins [(R-ME)] a fraud.”<\/p>\n

“Legris referred to police officers as ‘dumb as dirt,'” Durbin continued, quoting Ligris’ 2024 post. “And now you’re seeking a position to work with police departments all over the United States \u2014 you’re going to be allocating federal funds. How could you do that?”<\/p>\n

“I routinely, every 90 days, purge tweets for cybersecurity purposes,” Ligris replied.<\/p>\n

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“I can see why,” Durbin fired back.<\/p>\n

When Ligris added only that he wasn’t familiar with some of the posts, Durbin pressed harder.<\/p>\n

“That’s it?” he demanded. “At least address the ‘dumb as dirt’ comment. Say something! Apologize to them!”<\/p>\n

Ligris refused to budge.<\/p>\n

“I do not believe that law enforcement is ‘dumb as dirt,'” he said. “I would like to take a look at the entire post in its context.”<\/p>\n

“You better set some time aside,” Durbin countered, “because there are so many posts \u2014 hundreds of posts. It just seems to me inconsistent with serving the public.”<\/p>\n

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