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suddenly the outrage!!!!! the practice had been going on for decades and doing what CC did was perfectly fine.
That's a lame excuse.
What happened to "Law and Order" from the GOP convention? You didn't think it meant all these Republicans would be headed to jail, so now you don't like Law and Order so much.
It's a law on the books and he broke the law. He's been indicted. You don't get off the hook because the law changed 6 years ago. He's a member of the legislature...they write laws.
He knows that new laws are added all the time and that once it's a law, you have to abide by it. You can't say "It's a new law from 6 years ago, 7 years ago I wouldn't have been charged"
He was arrested, isn't that being hard on crime? Seriously, do you leftist read anything before you hit the post button?
Just one of many of Trump's swamp creatures.....Following Trump's "best of the best" is like watching The Sopranos, although I'm enjoying watching the wheels fall off the Trump train.
up until recently inside trading by congress was legal
"Martha Stewart went to jail for it. Hedge fund honcho Raj Rajaratnam was fined $92 million and will go to jail for years for it. But members of Congress can do the same thing -use non-public information to make stock trades -- and there's no law against it. Steve Kroft reports on how America's lawmakers can legally make tidy profits on information only they know, simply because they won't pass a law against themselves"
in 2012- 'A year ago, President Obama signed the STOCK ACT into law at a celebratory ceremony attended by a bipartisan cast of lawmakers.'
'How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law"..... in 30 seconds on a Friday afternoon.
suddenly the outrage!!!!! the practice had been going on for decades and doing what CC did was perfectly fine.
Lol. This is so wrong on so many levels that I'm not quite sure where to start.
First, what matters is what is legal presently, not what the case was in the past (I hear in Stone Age a lot of things were legal, that might not be nowadays).
Second, I think, the purpose of the Stock act law was to address insider trading on a knowledge acquired due to the official's position in Congress. In this case it was due to being on the board of that company (so the typical stuff).
Third, are you saying that Obama was trying to drain the swamp, I'm impressed by this admission.
Lastly, laws apply to everybody (regular folks, politicians and 0.01 percenters), I do not care who is member of what.
"Just hours after Republican Congressman and former Trump transition employee Chris Collins is arrested by the FBI, Trump fires nearly 40 employees from a financial watchdog group that tracks and investigates white-collar crimes."
I guess Trump doesn't want any more of his buddies getting arrested.
"Just hours after Republican Congressman and former Trump transition employee Chris Collins is arrested by the FBI, Trump fires nearly 40 employees from a financial watchdog group that tracks and investigates white-collar crimes."
I guess Trump doesn't want any more of his buddies getting arrested.
Oh please the crime is in both parties...how do you think people run for an office that pays $174K and lives in a high price city like DC and leaves office a millionaire? How do you think Maxine Waters lives in $4 million dollar house?
The point remains the President promised to drain the swamp, then proceeded to surround himself with liars and crooks. How many people who were close to him at one time have now been indicted? I mean you just can't ignore this although obviously that's exactly what you are trying to do.
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Seriously, do you leftist read anything before you hit the post button?
