We’ve all seen sporting events where you’d swear the referees or umpires were on the take. Calls that defy logic or actions devoid of common sense that leave people scratching their heads about how they came to be. Most of the time, it’s just an error – people make mistakes – or sometimes it is incompetence, but occasionally it is corruption. In sports, corruption can be rooted out, and people are fired. In politics, however, as a normal person would define it, corruption is perfectly legal.
I’ve written about this before because it’s a continuing issue in politics. Actually, I’ve written about this at least five different times. About Maxine Waters, Maxine Waters again, Janet Yellen, the Bidens, and everyone. Honestly, there aren’t many people in DC I couldn’t have written a corruption story about – like how Nancy Pelosi got so rich.
But the thing that sets Washington's corruption apart from what normal people would view as corrupt is, while so much of what happens with our government leaders is wildly unethical, it’s not, in fact, illegal.
Not because it shouldn’t be, it absolutely should be, but because for it to become illegal, the very people who benefit from it would have to change the law to criminalize it. That would be like asking the fox to design a literally legit security system for the hen house that could easily end up killing him. No one is going to stop their own gravy train.
The reason I’m thinking about this is the news this week about racist and horrible person Cori Bush, a Democrat Member of the House of Representatives from St. Louis, who represents a generationally economically depressed district that has elected Democrats exclusively since 1948. How has that worked out for them? Well, the district includes Ferguson, which Democrat rioters destroyed a few years ago over Michael Brown's death while attacking a cop, and you could barely notice.
Bush claimed she received a bunch of death threats, even once claiming there had been attempts on her life (no evidence exists of these attempts, but facts don’t matter anymore), so she says she needed security. Well, the House doesn’t provide for security, especially when no evidence exists to back up the claims of attempted assassination.
That meant if Bush wanted security, she’d have to pay for it herself or use campaign funds. She, obviously, chose the latter because, well, who’d expect an entitled pile of crap to pay for something out of their own pocket when they can use the money of suckers?
And her donors are suckers. He won her first election in 2020 with a narrow 78.8 percent of the vote. Two years later, she squeaked by with only 72.8 percent, a real nail-biter. In other words, she doesn’t need to campaign, let alone raise campaign money, to hold on to her job.
That doesn’t stop her. What’s the point of being in a position to rake in a fortune in campaign donations if you aren’t going to take the money? It doesn’t matter that she doesn’t need it; she can expense a lot of things – meals, trips, gas, life in general – and pocket her salary for a later date.
After all, Bush now has a net worth reported to be about $10 million, which is a pretty good trick for someone who was a “community organizer” from a district with a median household income of $57,762, don’t you think?
She couldn’t possibly be expected to pay for her own security, right? She used campaign cash, hundreds of thousands of dollars of it. But she paid it to a man who was not her husband and had no qualifications for the job. Again, not a problem.
If Bush had taken the campaign cash and put it directly into her bank account, that would be a crime. But if she gave it to her husband, who then put it in a joint bank account, that’s perfectly legal. Why? Because Members of Congress make the laws, that’s why.
That’s how Congresswoman, America-hating Ihan Omar – the country’s only sexually liberated radical Islamist, married three times (so far), 2 of which were not to immediate family members – can pay her latest husband’s consulting firm $2.8 million to help her get reelected when she just snuck in there with 74.33 percent of the vote. Who wouldn’t need to spend millions to defend a seat you couldn’t lose if he’d called a press conference to announce your constituents were morons while chucking puppies into a wood chipper?
Again, if Omar had just taken the money herself, it would be a crime, but she filtered it through her husband under the guise of “consulting,” and – POOF – it’s legal!
Do I think Bush is corrupt? Of course, she’s corrupt. She got rich in office. But that doesn’t make her a criminal. To be a criminal, she and other corrupt Members of Congress would have to turn how they make a fortune into something illegal. While they’re corrupt, they’d have to be criminally stupid to do that.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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