"I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too." Steve Martin
December 4, 2019
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
It was President Harry Truman who said, "You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook."
He's got a point.
It's never wrong to follow the money. It's done all the time on TV, and money is usually a "motive."
For indictable crimes.
And it doesn't matter which political party is involved.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) wife, Secretary of the Department of Transportation, Elaine Chao, has a close business relationship with her father, a shipping magnate with extensive business interests in China.
But no one ever questioned the couple's connection to China, even though their net worth skyrocketed from $5 million dollars in 2006 to $27 million today.
During Sen. Dianne Feinstein's 27 years in Congress (D-CA), while she was being driven around by her Chinese chauffer, her husband, Richard Blum, made a bundle for his real estate company CBRE, by "going postal."
Blum was awarded an exclusive contract to sell off $85 billion-dollars-worth of 56 Post Office properties.
The couple is worth in excess of $100 million dollars, but the senator denies that she receives any benefit from her hubbie's Post Office profits, and insists that her wealth is separate from her husband's.
Can anyone say "community property?"
Having a toe in the U.S. government can't hurt.
The Clintons, the Obamas, and the Bidens all have unexplained Rags to Riches stories.
Bill and Hillary were worth $35,000 dollars when they left Arkansas, and claimed to be broke and in debt when they left the White House, because of Bill's legal bills.
For his impeachment.
Their ace in the hole was the Clinton Foundation.
While Hillary was secretary of state, and when it was expected she would be the next president, the Foundation received tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments, Saudi, Qatar and others.
But when Trump won the presidency, donations to the Foundation plummeted from $249 mllion dollars to $38.4 million.
In 2000, Obama and Michelle were worth $240,000 and couldn't afford to buy a house. Now they have a current worth of $70 million dollars, and own mansions in D.C. and on Martha's Vineyard.
How do they do it? No one asks.
And then there's Lunch Bucket Joe.
In 2014 Joe took pride in saying he had been the poorest man in Congress. His net worth was less than $500,000. It's now $9 million dollars.
Joe was right. His family wasn't wealthy. But his son, Hunter is.
Hunter is wealthy because he has "jobs" in Ukraine and China, and has raked in millions.
While his father was vice president.
George Kent, the bow-tied State Department official who testified against President Trump in the Shifty Schiff hearings, said he voiced concern over a conflict of interest, but was turned away by a Biden staffer.
Joe says he didn't know about Hunter's jobs. That the two never spoke about them jobs. According to Joe.
Although there was that photo. Of the Bidens golfing with those Ukraine gas company execs.
But we don't know because no one investigates.
What we do know is we heard Obama's open mic promise to get back to President Putin after the 2012 election.
Putin's a Russian.
We know Joe threatened to withhold billions of U.S. dollars unless the Ukraine government fired the prosecutor looking into Hunter's Ukraine company.
We know Hillary paid for the "Phony Dossier." A Russian Dossier.
And that she, Obama, Obama's Intelligence Community and lesser Coup Conspirators like James Comey, Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe and others spied on, and plotted against The Donald.
Yet, to this day, nothing has been done to hold any of them accountable for their Russian dirty work.
Instead it is reported that Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz' report will state that the Intelligence Community was justified in spying on the Trump campaign.
To this day, no formal inquiry has been made into the Biden finances. Or the Clintons.
Instead, this week, the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Deutsche Bank and Capitol One must hand over President Trump's financial records in compliance with House Democrats' subpoenas.
Personal records. In search of a crime.
Chairman Jerry Nadler invited the president to attend and defend himself against the crimes he didn't commit at this week's impeachment hearings. But Trump didn't come.
He was working, unlike the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.
President Trump was in London, representing the United States at a 29-country NATO Summit. A trip that was planned a year ago for December 3. Which Nadler knew.
In the end, when the angry law professors finished professing their hatred for the president in today's hearings, and Schiff and Nadler continue to call No Fact Witnesses, ask yourself: Have these hearings been useful to you? Or were Trump's negotiations in the NATO summit a better deal?
And while you're at it, who do you believe the American people will think is the winner in this travesty called Impeachment?
Nadler? Schiff? Or the man they are impeaching?
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All.
Stay strong, Patriots.