Where were Democrats calling out corruption during Clinton scandal?
By Jenny Beth Martin, opinion contributor — 08/26/18 06:00 PM EDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi now wants Americans to believe Democrats are serious about cleaning up corruption in Washington. In response to the verdict against Paul Manafort and the plea deal by Michael Cohen, she declared that Trump administration and Republicans have shown an “unprecedented culture of corruption, cronyism and incompetence is characteristic of the dysfunctional political system in Washington. Democrats are committed to fighting For the people to restore dignity to our democracy and give power back to the people.â€
That is rich. Since when have Democrats shown a desire to drain the swamp? It certainly was not on display when the ongoing Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal came to light. Democrats, both in the executive branch and in the Congress, worked instead to hamper the investigation and protect those who had engaged in serial wrongdoing. Lois Lerner was allowed to retire with her benefits intact.
Moreover, former Attorney General Eric Holder, who ordered an FBI “investigation†so incompetent that its investigators never even bothered to interview victims of the IRS targeting and whose final report said that rather than being a problem Lerner was a hero, said earlier this year that the Justice Department of the Trump administration was wrong to have apologized to Tea Party groups who had been targeted, calling the apology “unnecessary, unfounded and inconsistent.â€
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