2016 Postmortem
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Imagine if it was Hillary's charity that paid the bribe to avoid prosecution.
It would be non stop 24/7 coverage.
Trump? Barely a whimper.
You suck.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)Understand?
doc03
(39,138 posts)has so many scandals and lies every day we can't cover them all, then the next day another batch.
Wouldn't you think they could just take one or two of the worst ones and report on them? The damn news media sucks.
mythology
(9,527 posts)You may recall the case of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell who took a boat load of goods and money from a Virginia businessman to set up said businessman with government access. McDonnell did so and was eventually tried and convicted (in spite of trying to shift all of the blame to his wife at trial) but a unanimous Supreme Court decision overturned the conviction in that there wasn't sufficient action taken by McDonnell to justify public corruption.
Not one of the Supreme Court's best decisions, and as I said before it was sadly unanimous. I would have expected a piece of trash like Thomas to vote for it, but so did the liberal bloc of judges.
But the effective result of the ruling is that now you basically have to not just catch the official taking money to make a thing happen, they also have to then be caught taking overt action to make it happen rather than just passive action.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Florida law is very specific on the matter.
by Robert Webster | 3:25 pm, June 30th, 2016
Bribery complaints were filed against both Donald Trump and Pam Bondi over a donation that Trump made to Bondis campaign. LawNewz.com has learned that Whitfield Larrabee, a Boston trial lawyer, filed the complaints with the US Attorneys Office in both New York and Florida. He alleges a violation of federal bribery laws after Bondi solicited $25,000 for her campaign from Trump in 2013.
During this time, Bondi and her office were reviewing claims that Trump Universitys seminars were worthless and that students were duped out of thousands of dollars. Shortly after receiving the Trump donation, Bondi found that these claims had no merit and opted not to take action against him or his company.
Larrabee believes these actions are suspicious and decided to file a complaint against both Bondi and Trump for bribery. At first, he filed a complaint with the Florida Board of Ethics on June 7th, 2016. However, a criminal investigation is outside of their jurisdiction and it is up to the Governor of Florida to appoint an outside investigator. Florida Governor Rick Scott subsequently refused to hire an outside investigator.
There is an unholy alliance between Trump, Bondi and Scott. Consequently, the complaints filed today demand that United States and New York officials conduct independent and impartial investigations, convene grand juries, and obtain indictments .............
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Instead they want a race, they want a couple more months of drama. They don't care that the unthinkable could happen because of them.