Awards self trophy for victimhood
By Philip Bump
May 18 at 9:14 AM
... Trump first complained that there was never a special counsel to look at “all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration.” He then made a claim that expands upon his statement Wednesday that “no politician in history … <had> been treated worse or more unfairly” than himself ...
The immediate and obvious example is President Bill Clinton. As his time in office was wrapping up, Government Accountability Office estimates figured that some $90 million had been spent on independent investigations over the course of his presidency, culminating in the impeachment trial in the Senate that left him in office. That’s the equivalent of $132 million today. Clinton and his administration were investigated for a broad range of things: the Clinton’s Whitewater real estate deal, terminating employees in the White House Travel Office, the death of Vincent Foster and an investigation into FBI files on political opponents ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/18/trump-awards-himself-a-new-trophy-for-victimhood/
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