Daily Beast just dropped an article that I feel like we should know about. Maybe everyone knows this but me, but Clarence Thomas has received an extensive list of secret and not so secret gifts, and one of those gifts appears to have been an all-expense paid visit to Putin’s hometown, courtesy of his buddy Harlan Crow.
www.thedailybeast.com/...
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden delivered a 14 page letter to Merrick Garland yesterday detailing a whole bunch of off-the-books gifts to Clarence Thomas and suggesting that he be investigated for tax fraud.
The list of potentially secret gifts also includes a loan of more than $267,000 provided by Thomas’ close friend Anthony Welters, the yacht trip to Russia from the Baltics, and the helicopter ride to Yusupov Palace in St. Petersburg. ProPublica first reported last year on the existence of extensive undisclosed gifts and lavish trips from Crow.
Huh. Well would you look at that. Anyway, sorry for the terse diary but I saw nothing about it here and it seems like something that should have a little more staying power than the endless speculation about what Nancy Pelosi is saying based on what she’s not saying. But I digress.