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mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
Fri Nov 9, 2018, 04:42 PM Nov 2018

Matthew Whitaker Pawn for Trump the Biggest Liar In World History!


From October 2014 to September 2017, Whitaker was the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust,[27] and the organization's only full-time employee in 2015 and 2016.[28] FACT, founded in late 2014, is a conservative nonprofit organization specializing in legal and ethical issues related to politics.[29][30] The Washington Post reported in February 2015 that "The group is backed by $1 million in seed money from donors who support conservative legal causes", and that Whitaker had declined to identify the donors.[31] According to the organization's first tax return, its funding — $600,000 in 2014 - came from a conservative donor-advised fund called DonorsTrust, a pass-through vehicle that allows donors to remain anonymous.[32]

During Whitaker's tenure at FACT, the organization had a special focus on the Hillary Clinton e-mail controversy and perceived favoritism in the business dealings of Clinton.[33] While the head of FACT, Whitaker wrote opinion pieces that appeared in USA Today and the Washington Examiner, and appeared regularly on conservative talk-radio shows and cable news.[34] For four months, from June to September 2017, he was a CNN contributor.[35]

One month prior to joining the Justice Department, Whitaker wrote an opinion column for CNN titled "Mueller's Investigation of Trump is Going Too Far."[36] He stated that Mueller's investigation should be limited and should not probe into Trump's finances.[37]

Constitutional views
The New York Times' Charlie Savage reported that Whitaker said in a question-and-answer session during his 2014 Iowa Senatorial campaign that "the courts are supposed to be the inferior branch."[38][39] Whitaker was critical of the United States Supreme Court beginning with Marbury v. Madison (1803), the decision that allows judicial review of the constitutionality of the acts of the other branches of government. In the same interview, he criticized a long line of Supreme Court cases.[38] Harvard Law professor Lawrence Tribe described Whitaker's views as “extreme and the overall picture he presents would have virtually no scholarly support,” and they would be “destabilizing” to society if he used the power of the attorney general to advance them."[38]

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Matthew Whitaker Pawn for Trump the Biggest Liar In World History! (Original Post) mitty14u2 Nov 2018 OP
dump said that he has never meet Whitaker or spoken to him scarytomcat Nov 2018 #1

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
1. dump said that he has never meet Whitaker or spoken to him
Fri Nov 9, 2018, 05:24 PM
Nov 2018

so he just appoints him on his record as a con man and is an outspoken as anti-Mueller investigation person
I find it hard to believe has not spoken to his new AG

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