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Monday, December 17, 2018

The Perfectly Legal Corruption No One Cares About

The buzz this week in the news was all about corruption. OK, it was about one very specific type of corruption – the President paying women to not go public with allegations of affairs they say happened 12 years ago. But this is Washington, DC, sex scandals are only the tip of the corruption iceberg. Only, unlike anything involving Donald Trump, most of them are perfectly legal and the media has little to no interest in reporting on them.

I don’t know what Trump did 12 years ago, he wasn’t President at the time so I don’t care. I also don’t care if he paid women to keep quiet either because he’d had affairs with them or because it was easier just to throw some money around to make them go away and avoid the hassle. (I covered the reasons why in Thursday’s column here.) I’m not married to him, nor am I responsible for his choices or for those making the allegations.

What I don’t like is when people whose salaries we’re all paying use more of our tax dollars to pay off people they’ve harassed and keep that quiet.

There have been more than 260 settlements costing more than $17 million, paid for by you and me, so our elected Members for Congress can avoid being held responsible for things they’re now clutching their pearls over the President having done with his own money.

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3 comments:

lmclain said...

Our RULERS have a different standard of behavior when it comes to what THEY do.
We need to begin hanging them. Or setting them on fire. Or throwing them out the tenth floor window. Something.
How long will we allow them to disrespect the laws they imprison and shame US with??
Cheer on, cheerleaders...

Anonymous said...

That fund should be canceled ASAP and all the Politians should be made to pay back all the monies taken with interest and then punished including taking all pensions and benefits they are collecting from tax payers.

Anonymous said...

they need to be outted and doxed, striped of any pension and resign or soon be fired