’)White House won’t discuss meetings between officials, Abramoff
For the second straight day, the White House refused Wednesday to say who among its staffers met with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff or whom the recently convicted felon was representing when he visited the executive mansion.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan, pressed to explain Abramoff’s contacts with the Bush administration, said, “We’re not going to engage in a fishing expedition” in the media.
I think it’s within the public’s right to know if Republican criminal Jack Abramoff had meetings in our White House currently inhabited by Republicans.
Four months after he took the oath of office in 2001, President George W. Bush was the attraction, and the White House the venue, for a fundraiser organized by the alleged perpetrator of the largest billing fraud in the history of corporate lobbying. In May 2001, Jack Abramoff s lobbying client book was worth $4.1 million in annual billing for the Greenberg Traurig law firm. He was a friend of Bush advisor Karl Rove. He was a Bush Pioneer, delivering at least $100,000 in bundled contributions to the 2000 campaign. He had just concluded his work on the Bush Transition Team as an advisor to the Department of the Interior. He had sent his personal assistant Susan Ralston to the White House to work as Rove s personal assistant. He was a close friend, advisor, and high-dollar fundraiser for the most powerful man in Congress, Tom DeLay. Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration that he could, and did, charge two of his clients $25,000 for a White House lunch date and a meeting with the President. From the same two clients he took to the White House in May 2001, Abramoff also obtained $2.5 million in contributions for a non-profit foundation he and his wife operated.
So far in all this back and forth of Republican criminals bringing Republican money in and out of the Republican-run White House, I don’t see much bipartisanship.
JD: I don’t know if any crime has been committed, but a Republican criminal met with the President in the White House. We should be privy to the details. We sort of own the building, you know.
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Have you noticed how these disgraced criminals like Abramoff and Ken Lay all served on Bush’s transition teams charged with choosing appointments to the various departments and bureaus like the FERC (Lay) or Dept Interior (Abramoff). MMMMMM… Bush campaign donor’s money at work.
So now it is a crime to have met with him ?
Why don’t they just have the Justice Department wave their magic wand so that taking money from Abramoff isn’t illegal anymore, like with warrantless wiretaps?
Zambo;
The investigation is about quid pro quo donations. If all contributions
were a crime your silly documentation would have meaning.
Go peddle your diversionary snake oil at Polipunidt or Little Green
Boogers or whatever.
I hope you re just as tough on this administration as you were during the Lincoln Bedroom & Morning Coffee days.
Then I’d say the same should go for your side. From what I remember, the right couldn’t shut up about the Lincoln bedroom story. Yet, now, when it comes to an exponentially bigger scandal involving admitted GOP criminals…all we get is “but clinton!!!”
Isn’t that hypocritical as well?
It’s always Clinton with you guys. It’s fucking pathological. Got nothing to say about our shitty President’s dishonest, secretive, corrupt ways? Change the subject to Clinton. Are you people for real? Anyway, it’s quite clear that Abramoff was offering his clients access to the WH in exchange for money. At least we all agree on that.
So Zambo, you admit you have no problem with Abramoff selling access to Bush to the highest bidder? You admit that you place a higher value on attacking Democrats than on defending American democracy?
No Democrat took money from Abramoff. Zero. Nothing. Zambo is lying.
No Democrat took money from Abramoff. Zero. Nothing. Zambo is lying.
Shoo little troll. Go back under the bridge before you get run over. Shoo.
Proof? No Democrat took money from Abramoff. Zero. Nothing.
Did Jack Abramoff change his name to “Tribal Donations”? There is no proof there that Abramoff directed any donations to Democrats, or that Democrats knew who Abramoff was or that he was directing donations to Democrats.
Again, for the dense (that’s you zambo), no Democrat took money from Abramoff. Zero. Nothing.
Zambo… your intellectual dishonesty is frankly breath taking… I love your attempt at backing your premise up with a June Post article, which doesn’t support you. Conveniently ignoring the facts and context is more appropriate a charge to yourself, than factCheck.
Hmmm… you could’ve at least cited one of the more recent post articles that specifically addresses the issue – but then, none of those actually support your premise either.
Nice try. Good day.
Maybe Abramoff was just in the White House for a little liaison with Jeff Gannon. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.