Al Gore grew fat from companies who used the Obama green handout, including Solyndra, who stole a half billion. Democrats howled that Republican investigations were "politically motivated." But Trump!
It's also fun to speculate what a Republican administration might be able to do to bring Solyndra to justice when it's headed by a President without a legacy of legal issues that she brings to office and the ability to NOT generate new ones while in office. If we want to discuss the waste of taxpayer dollars during the Trump administration, how many DoJ hours were spent defending Trump versus going after actors like Solyndra?
Something to keep in mind while we debate whether to spend intellectual and rhetorical capital defending a fellow who really hasn't earned it.
"But let’s cut through the gaslighting. These corporate poop-sniffing expeditions into the Trump Organization’s books are nothing but political prosecutions. They are efforts to punish the former president and anyone associated with him, for his actions since 2015 when he descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower. The prosecutions do nothing to minimize Trump’s profile. In fact, they promote him and keep him in the news, when he should be fading from memory."
Let's see what wrongdoing was committed before slapping the "gaslighting" label on it. Before 2015, Trump was already a financially-sketchy character (meaning that if I tried to do what Trump has been accused of doing, I'd be in prison or destitute already). There was a reason folks like me were beating the disclosure and divestment drum leading up to the 2016 election. Trump used his time as President to shield himself from further investigations and continues to try and do so. Let's see what James comes up with and what a jury of Trump's peers decide (should it get to that point) before jumping the gun to treat the office of the Presidency as a carte blanche to Get Out of Jail Free.
Just like in the tennis player case, either laws apply to everyone equally or they don't. I know which world I'm hoping to live in.
It's also fun to speculate what a Republican administration might be able to do to bring Solyndra to justice when it's headed by a President without a legacy of legal issues that she brings to office and the ability to NOT generate new ones while in office. If we want to discuss the waste of taxpayer dollars during the Trump administration, how many DoJ hours were spent defending Trump versus going after actors like Solyndra?
Something to keep in mind while we debate whether to spend intellectual and rhetorical capital defending a fellow who really hasn't earned it.
"But let’s cut through the gaslighting. These corporate poop-sniffing expeditions into the Trump Organization’s books are nothing but political prosecutions. They are efforts to punish the former president and anyone associated with him, for his actions since 2015 when he descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower. The prosecutions do nothing to minimize Trump’s profile. In fact, they promote him and keep him in the news, when he should be fading from memory."
Let's see what wrongdoing was committed before slapping the "gaslighting" label on it. Before 2015, Trump was already a financially-sketchy character (meaning that if I tried to do what Trump has been accused of doing, I'd be in prison or destitute already). There was a reason folks like me were beating the disclosure and divestment drum leading up to the 2016 election. Trump used his time as President to shield himself from further investigations and continues to try and do so. Let's see what James comes up with and what a jury of Trump's peers decide (should it get to that point) before jumping the gun to treat the office of the Presidency as a carte blanche to Get Out of Jail Free.
Just like in the tennis player case, either laws apply to everyone equally or they don't. I know which world I'm hoping to live in.