http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-from-settlement-funds-gop-lawmaker-says.html
While Eric Holder was U.S. attorney general, the Justice Department allowed prosecutors to strike agreements compelling big companies to give money to outside groups not connected to their cases to meet settlement burdens. Republican lawmakers long have decried those payments as a “slush fund” that boosted liberal groups, and the Trump DOJ ended the practice earlier this year.
But internal Justice Department emails released Tuesday by Goodlatte indicated that not only were officials involved in determining what organizations would get the money, but also Justice Department officials may have intervened to make sure the settlements didn’t go to conservative groups.
So now Trump can deny money to his political opponents because Obama and Holder did?
“Aiding their political allies was only the half of it,” Goodlatte said. “The evidence of the Obama DOJ’s abuse of power shows that Tony West’s team went out of its way to exclude conservative groups.”
The documents indicate West played an active role in helping certain organizations obtain settlement information.
“Can you explain to Tony the best way to allocate some money to an organization of our choosing?” Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Elizabeth Taylor wrote in one November 2013 email.
Trump is way too ethical to disallow political opponents from receiving slush money, but I suppose he could since Obama did. Our resident liberals would go ape shiite nuts and demand for impeachment if Trump did something like this.
Hillary proven collusion with Russia. Obama proven to have used the DOJ to punish political enemies. Jeff Flake getting out of town before he loses re election. Not a very good day for the swamp.
While Eric Holder was U.S. attorney general, the Justice Department allowed prosecutors to strike agreements compelling big companies to give money to outside groups not connected to their cases to meet settlement burdens. Republican lawmakers long have decried those payments as a “slush fund” that boosted liberal groups, and the Trump DOJ ended the practice earlier this year.
But internal Justice Department emails released Tuesday by Goodlatte indicated that not only were officials involved in determining what organizations would get the money, but also Justice Department officials may have intervened to make sure the settlements didn’t go to conservative groups.
So now Trump can deny money to his political opponents because Obama and Holder did?
“Aiding their political allies was only the half of it,” Goodlatte said. “The evidence of the Obama DOJ’s abuse of power shows that Tony West’s team went out of its way to exclude conservative groups.”
The documents indicate West played an active role in helping certain organizations obtain settlement information.
“Can you explain to Tony the best way to allocate some money to an organization of our choosing?” Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Elizabeth Taylor wrote in one November 2013 email.
Trump is way too ethical to disallow political opponents from receiving slush money, but I suppose he could since Obama did. Our resident liberals would go ape shiite nuts and demand for impeachment if Trump did something like this.
Hillary proven collusion with Russia. Obama proven to have used the DOJ to punish political enemies. Jeff Flake getting out of town before he loses re election. Not a very good day for the swamp.
