“There are bigger allegations. Over several months, in speaking with 21 people who know Ross, Forbes uncovered a pattern: Many of those who worked directly with him claim that Ross wrongly siphoned or outright stole a few million here and a few million there, huge amounts for most but not necessarily for the commerce secretary. At least if you consider them individually. But all told, these allegations—which sparked lawsuits, reimbursements and an SEC fine—come to more than $120 million. If even half of the accusations are legitimate, the current United States secretary of commerce could rank among the biggest grifters in American history.”
Anyone surprised? This whole era (where republican voters fell for the line about draining the swamp) is filled with grifters. As I posted on the old board, they’re not draining the swamp, they’re coming to DC and showing the politicians what real corruption looks like.
"One of Ross’ former colleagues is more direct: “He’s a pathological liar.”
One would have thought that when it was discovered that he had secret offshore companies and one of them held a sizable stake in a Russian shipping owned by Putin’s inner circle and he never disclosed that when he took office would have been enough to get him to stop down.
I mean… in any other administration there would have been consequences.
Very true. Although, should the very high probability of the Democrats reclaiming the House come to fruition, then rather than a move for impeachment of Trump (save some really damning report issued by Mueller) then what we will begin to see is some serious oversight investigations in the House of all of these scandalous reports, in which the current GOP House blatantly is ignoring.
I completely understand. I know it has been stated ad-nauseum at this point, but it really stinks that Clinton and Trump were the two choices offered by the two parties.
Right…but you get the overall point…granted the flip would be the right would of had 4 more years to push their ■■■■■■■■ like they are.
Sadly I watched ohio 12 and I have a weird feeling in the back of my head the gop might retain the house. Like the dems get close but cant push people over the edge ya know
I don’t see it that same way. But the Democrats are certainly great at ripping defeat from the jaws of victory. As it stands now, there is something like 60 seats up for grabs that have a lower margin of victory in 2016 than the OH-12 had. And looking at Cook and some of the other prediction sites out there, it really looks as if the Democrats need to pick up about 12 seats in “toss-up” races to win the House. And that is out of somewhere around 26 total “toss-up” races, so less than half.
