Check out any far right blog or news site and you'll read their alternative realities. They've been howling for years about Crooked Hillary and the corrupt Democrats. But do the facts bear any of that out?
No.
Our far right brethern yell LOUDLY so as to drown out the facts and divert attention from reality. Below is the reality of where true political corruption lies. And it ain't with the current Democratic Party.
From my friend, Lee Arnold:
In the 28 yrs that Republicans have held office over the last 53 yrs they have had a total of (a drum roll would be more than appropriate) 120 criminal indictments of executive branch officials with 89 criminal convictions and 34 prison sentences handed down.
That’s more prison sentences than years in office since 1968 for Republicans. If you want to count articles of impeachment as indictments (they aren’t really but we can count them as an action), both sides get one more. However, Clinton wasn’t found guilty while Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Ford (and a pardon carries with it a legal admission of guilt on the part of the pardoned).
So those only serve to make Republicans look even worse. With everything going on with Trump and his people right now, it’s a safe bet Republicans are gonna be padding their numbers a bit real soon.
So let’s just go over the numbers one more time, shall we?
120 indictments for Republicans. 89 convictions, and 34 prison sentences.
Those aren’t 'feelings' or 'alternative facts.' Those are simply the stats by the numbers.
Republicans are, and have been for my entire lifetime, the most criminally corrupt party to hold the office of the presidency."
Charlie Pierce, Esquire:
"Ten months.
It took Richard Nixon four years to get himself tangled up with serious felonies. It took Ronald Reagan five years to sign off on arming the Contras in contravention of federal law. Hell, it was almost three years—and two special prosecutors—into Bill Clinton’s term before anybody was indicted with the remotest connection to whatever the Whitewater affair really was all about. Ten months is all it took for the president*’s former campaign manager, a guy who ran the president*’s campaign for almost twice as long as evil genius Steve Bannon did, and his principal aide, who was still hanging around the White House as recently as last June, to get hauled into FBI headquarters early Monday morning to begin what may be several years worth of similar perp walks. Ten months.
This is impressive."
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Think Fox is bad? Comment threads at the really wingnutty sites are actually claiming the arrests mean Mueller is about to go after the Democrats because Manafort once had some connections with Podesta, and besides, URANIUM WHITEWATER VINCE FOSTER BENGHAAAAZIIIII!!!!! It's like a conscious effort to retreat into madness to escape harsh reality.
I shudder to think what some of them might do once the truth becomes inescapable.
It is a shame what the Party of Lincoln has ddevolved into.
Any conservative with principles and integrity recognizes and admits that the sleazy and corrupt Trump administration is the result of years of misinformation, deceit, and organized corupption within the GOP.
Sad but true.
‘If you think this is the worst day — think again’: GOP strategist, Rick Wilson, taunted Trump fans with future indictments
Trump fans upset about the indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort are hanging their hats on the fact that special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment did not mention his work on Trump’s campaign in the charges.
However, Republican strategist Rick Wilson taunted Trump’s supporters on Monday by explaining that the case against Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign is far from over — and that there are many more shoes yet to drop.
In particular, Wilson zeroed in on the revelation that former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos reached out to Russian officials to arrange meetings with the Trump campaign — and even to help coordinate the release of what he believed were emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server.
“We now have confessed collusion and a complex electronic trail from Pap to his fellow Trump campaign members,” Wilson wrote. “These are serious people running a serious investigation and you’re either a cooperating witness or a target.”
He then went on to mock the Trump administration’s legal strategy, while noting that Mueller has hired a team of top-notch investigators.
“That the intelligence community has a royal flush,” he joked. “Team Treason has a pair of twos on their best day.”
Wilson finished off his Twitter rant by warning Trump supporters that the worst was yet to come for their favorite politician.
“Clutch that fig-leaf of ‘no collusion’ tight because if you think this is the worst day for you, think again,” he said.
Those are amazing numbers that you friend Lee Arnold presented. Here is a breakdown of them.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/11/1619079/-Comparing-Presidential-Administrations-by-Arrests-and-Convictions-A-Warning-for-Trump-Appointees
They point out some interesting things.
1. If the numbers were reversed, the republicans would talk about nothing else. Why are the Dems so silent?
2. If we truly had a liberal press, these numbers would be publicized particularly given the current investigations.
3. Republicans talk law and order, but don’t practice it.
4. Democrats are very good at investigations.
5. Republicans are very bad at investigations, OR
6. Democrats are much more honest than republicans, OR
7. Democrats are much smarter than Republicans at covering up their illegal actions.
Feel free to add to the list!
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