If you haven’t read the Duncan D. Hunter indictment, please do so. It’s a dime-by-dime catalog of illegal conversion of campaign funds to personal pleasures, including a night at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel with Individual 14. It also implies that a friend of his wife’s, Individual 7, also spent a night with him at the same hotel. Duncan Hunter, like his father Duncan L. Hunter (decorated Viet vet, Army Rangers) Duncan D. served in the military, rising to the rank of Major in the Marines and receiving an honorable discharge after service in Iraq/Afghanistan. The father claimed to be a “born again” Christian. While the son’s affiliations are more difficult to find, the indictment lists the following:
To conceal and disguise his illegal activity, he misled his Chief of Staff by describing his regular golf outing with Individual IA as "a Christian thing" with a supporter.
HUNTER spent $3,500 in Campaign funds to pay the family's tuition bill at Christian Unified Schools
The point of this is not that Hunter is an adulterer. That’s an issue for his wife and family. It’s that he’s a hypocrite. The point is not that he’s a Christian. I’m a Christian, and it pains me just as much to see people misuse the faith as it does to see people outside the faith using the misdeeds of bad Christians to stir anti-religious hatred.
But we have to say that the pathology seen in the indictment is a group phenomenon. Duncan’s father continues to defend his son’s gross misbehavior as the consequence of a “political hit,” even though the indictment was issued in 2017 under the Sessions Justice Department. And the group goes beyond the Hunter family. Rank-and-file Republicans on a site that is a right-wing mirror are saying this about Major Hunter’s conduct:
To: CaptainK
Just before the election. How convenient.
To: CaptainK
And yet hillary has hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign governments sent to the Foundation and she walks free.
To: CaptainK
Gee DOJ sure seems to like indicting repubs
6posted on
8/21/2018, 4:34:40 PMby
Nifster(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: shelterguy
And do not forget Hillary's pork futures fortune.
Martha Stewart went to jail for much less than that.
8posted on
8/21/2018, 4:36:50 PMby
Governor Dinwiddie("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
To: CaptainK
Everybody getting indicted for doing 1/10000000th of the financial shenannigans the Clinton crime family has done every - single - day for decades.
To: CaptainK
11posted on
8/21/2018, 4:38:15 PMby
Revolutionary("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Does the DOJ ever indict RATs?
To: Reily
Damn right. Charlie Rangel could murder someone on camera and Harlem would send him back to DC without a second thought. Hell, DC elected Marion Berry as mayor after he was caught dead to rights smoking crack and soliciting hookers on surveillance camera. Oh, they erected a statue in his honor too.
19posted on
8/21/2018, 4:40:25 PMby
NohSpinZone(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: NohSpinZone
And it might be a good time to consider investing in torches and pitchforks.
The Deep State is leaving no doubt who's in charge,
29posted on
8/21/2018, 4:48:06 PMby
daler
To: zeestephen
The deep state created an entirely new crime with Cohen, because Trump has done nothing wrong. So they invented the crime of paying off an extortionist while being a candidate. Nothing wrong with that, and nothing wrong with using your attorney to arrange it, paying the attorney for his services and having the attorney front the expenses. Happens every single day. Now they are calling it an effort to influence a campaign, and it’s a donation. Ridiculous!!!
38posted on
8/21/2018, 4:52:30 PMby
Defiant(I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
To: CaptainK
that indictment is an act of poltical war
43posted on
8/21/2018, 4:54:56 PMby
bert((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
That’s right: ordinary Republicans believe that spending over a quarter of a million dollars of campaign money—money they may well have donated—on Italian vacations, airplane tickets for a pet rabbit, tequila shots, and affairs at the Liaison are just a Democratic plot. Who cares about semper fi and keeping our honor clean? Semper pie!
Now, you also need to know that while these commenters are loyal Republicans, for the most part, they aren’t the hard-core extremists. A few of them are actually pointing out that Hunter is not a good man. But this is what fanaticism looks like: when we dehumanize opponents and imagine huge conspiracies, we become capable of justifying misdeeds by our own side. Kossacks are not immune, though I think we do a better job of hauling ourselves in before we get too far out on the cliff edge. But looking at the adulation for Lanny Davis, whose career more resembles Paul Manafort’s than it does Mother Teresa’s, reminds me that we are capable of overlooking corruption on our side.
And it reminds me that as a nation we have a lot of healing to undergo, a lot of erasing of old hatreds, a lot of remembering that honesty is core to who the real American is.