Rancid Butterball Turkey of the Year
Matthew Whitaker wins the highly competitive race for Turkey of this holiday season.
Whitaker was a former U.S. attorney with a modest legal practice in Iowa that paid him $79,000 that year, according to a later disclosure he filed for a failed Senate bid.
So how did he become the sole employee of a charity that paid him $1.2 million last year?
It appears that his job description was to beat up on liberals, including Hillary Clinton. It’s kinda the exact opposite of what I do except for that $1.2 million thing.
Now here’s the deal. The group, which really ain’t a group being as how they have only one employee, first filed for tax-exempt status under another name and said they were going to study the effect of environmental regulations on businesses. They did diddle squat for a year and only existed with a post office box. Then they changed their name and hired Whitaker.
Now here’s the giant deal: they do not have to disclose who gives them money. Is it Adelson? Mercer? Gladys Knight and the Pips?
The devil himself?
We now have a political hack running the justice department. You know, like every other department in the government.
Thanks to SGray for the heads up.
Unfortunately there probably isn’t anyone who is willing to put a fork in him, because they are all “on-the-take” like him.
1And now you know why Republicans are hell-bent on ramming “their” judges into courts at every level.
2Matt certainly found the conservatives irony bone. FACT, or the Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust, as ironic in long form as in acronym grifted the $1.2 million to Matt.
Just a “few” of Matt’s targets from his days at FACT: The Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry,Sidney Blumenthal, Senator Mark Warner, data firm Catalist, Correct the Record PAC, NexGen Climate Action Committee, Senator Claire McCaskill, Senator Thomas Carper, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Representative Alan Grayson, Representative Patrick Murphy, Representative. Ami Bera, Representative Jarred Huffman, Representative John Lewis, Representative Ben Ray Lujan, Representative Keith Ellison, Representative Alcee Hastings, Representative Hank Johnson, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Senate candidates Joe Sestak, Katie McGinty, Patrick Murphy, Ted Strickland, Evan Bayh, Catherine Cortez Masto; House candidates Tom Nelson, Steve Santarsiero, Suzanna Shkreli, Ruben Kihuen, Jim Mowrer, Colleen Deacon, Pete Gallego, Doug Applegate, Bryan Caforio, Morgan Carroll, LuAnn Bennett, Christina Hartman, Stephanie Murphy, Michael Eggman, Mike Derrick; the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, Jobs and Opportunity PAC, and Representative John Lewis’s Chief of Staff Michael Collins.
https://www.newsweek.com/heres-list-democrats-acting-ag-matt-whitaker-wanted-investigate-1206917
DonorsTrust is the funnel for the dark money. Time to subpoena some financial records. Any bets on the usual list of miscreants such as Adelson, Koch and Mercer? Hey Donnie, what’s up with that medal you just gave to Shelly’s wife, any connection(s) there?
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/04/new-nonprofit-tied-to-stealthy-circle-of-dark-money-groups/
3Can’t wait for Maxine Waters to take over the Financial Services committee. I don’t think these weasels got their money from Gladys Knight.
4Who would have thought Rump would build a swamp instead of a wall?
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