Everywhere you turn, congressional Republicans are mired in scandal and ethical disaster:
- In upstate New York, Rep. Chris Collins
- In southern California, Rep. Duncan Hunter
- In Virginia Beach, staffers for Rep. Scott Taylor
- In suburban Ohio, Rep. Jim Jordan
- On the gulf coast of Florida, Rep. Vern Buchanan
- In the suburbs of Phoenix, Rep. David Schweikert
- In Orange County, California, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, ...
- In upstate New York, Rep. Chris Collins was indicted for insider trading after he received private information that a company he’d touted for years was about to go under, then advised his family to sell off their shares, avoiding enormous losses.
- In southern California, Rep. Duncan Hunter was indicted for spending campaign funds on personal expenses, like vacations to Italy and a $600 airplane ticket for his kid’s pet rabbit, then filed false financial reports claiming, among other things, that the money had gone to “wounded warriors.”
- In Virginia Beach, staffers for Rep. Scott Taylor filed fraudulent signatures—including those of at least four dead people—to help an ex-Democrat (who herself is on trial for fraud) get on the ballot as an independent in order to split the vote with the real Democrat.
- In suburban Ohio, Rep. Jim Jordan stands accused of failing to report the sexual abuse of student athletes by a team doctor when he was a college wrestling coach, and has encouraged his supporters to blame a delusional “deep state” conspiracy for his woes.
- On the gulf coast of Florida, Rep. Vern Buchanan bought a new yacht worth at least $3 million on the very same day he voted to give himself a tax cut of $2.1 million—and paid for it with a loan from a bank that lobbied for the very same tax legislation, which Buchanan himself helped write.
- In the suburbs of Phoenix, Rep. David Schweikert is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee because of his chief of staff’s questionable levels of outside income and lavish spending of taxpayer dollars, including $5,000 on a getaway to Super Bowl weekend.
- In Orange County, California, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, best known as “Putin’s favorite congressman,” has gone before two congressional committees over his ties to Russian officials and is reportedly of interest to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as well.
And none of this even touches on the extraordinary corruption that starts at the very top, with Donald Trump …
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In 2006, this grotesque feedback loop played out in the exact same way, as congressional Republicans gave Bush a free pass, then became enmeshed in a never-ending series of scandals themselves.
The litany included Rep. Bob Ney, who was bribed by corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff and later was sentenced to 30 months in prison; Rep. Mark Foley, who preyed on teenage House interns and went un-policed by the top ranks of House leadership; Rep. Don Sherwood, who was accused of choking his mistress, then agreed to pay her $500,000 for her silence; and no less than the majority leader of the House itself, Rep. Tom DeLay, who resigned in disgrace after getting indicted on charges that he’d conspired to violate election laws. …
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