HOW WOULD THE GOP HAVE ACTED, IF THE OBAMA TEAM ACTED LIKE TRUMP’S TEAM?

…A caricature of the IPA Secretary, Scott Pruitt’s $43,000 Private Security, Phone Booth

Not one of the Obama two election campaign’s close associates had to be indicted for illegal activities.

I find it interesting that even now, while Robert Mueller III’s report is being made available, and while there are 17 different investigations still in process, the White House is celebrating the Mueller report as a win.  This is mainly because there are no additional indictments coming from the report.

Just think about how bad all this would have been considered for this, the most corrupt administration ever, if none of the two years of bad things had been reported before the Mueller report!  But what if the following information was all offered up by major newspapers, all at the same time, on the first day at the end of this two years of investigation?

What we have all become numb to is that, little by little, we have been hearing of the illegal or less-than-appropriate moves going on within Trump administration. 

And also, just consider what would the Republicans have done if Barack Obama had had the following issues occur on his watch?  I have to add here, that not one of Obama’s cabinet members or of his campaign’s close associates had been accused of any of the following issues, as it has been with the Trump administration.

Once again, what if all of the following issues were spread out on the front pages of the New Your Times and the Washington Post, on the day after the Mueller Report was made available, and what if none of this devastating information had been known until after the rellease of the report?

For instance: what if this was the NY Times’s Headline:  THE FOLLOWING TRUMP CAMPAIGN ASSOCIATES WERE INDICTED OR PLEADED GUILTY TO ILLEGAL ACTIONS IN THE 2016 ELECTION

• Paul Manafort – Found guilty on 8 counts and will be on trial for the Southern District of New York for additional illegal actvities.

• Rick Gates- Has a plea deal for cooperating where he pleaded guilty to 1 count lying to FBI and 1 count of conspiracy against to US Government

• George Papadopolulos – guilty of 1 count of lying to the FBI

• Alex vander Zwaan – Trump campaign associate and guilty of 1 count of not registering as being a representative of a foreign country

• Sam Patten – found guilty of 1 county of conspiracy against the US government

• 12 Russian Military Intelligence Officers – All individually named and Indicted for interfering in the 2016 US elections

• The Intelligence Research Agency – Indicted as a Russian Troll Farm in a 37page indictment.  Also assisted in getting Trump elected as president.

• Mueller has also indicted 2 shell companies and 13 Russian Nationals including, Yevgneiy Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin’s Chef”, for conspiracy against the United States and interfering in the 2016 US election.

In addition, what if on the same day the WASHINGTON POST said in it's Headline: TRUMP CABINET MEMBERS LEAVING OR IN TROUBLE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

The following Cabinet members have resigned or are in trouble for the following:

• Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS), Tom Price, will be leaving for his spending on expensive charter of airplanes and spending tax payer money on trips with his wife.

• Secretary of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, will be leaving for his spending $18,000 over budget on a $43,000 private security phone booth in his office and his spending on First Class travel for himself and his security team.

• Secretary of HUD, Ben Carson is in trouble for spending $31,000 on a dining room set for his HUD office.  He is personally repaying the full amount.

• Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, will be leaving for his use of expensive charter aircraft.  He spent $12,375.00 on a single charter trip from Las Vegas to his home in Montana.

• The Secretary of Veteran’s Affair’s, David Shulkin, will be leaving for his spending tax payer money on a trip to Europe with his wife.

In addition to these headlines there are printed articles about how the children of the president had some major issues that keeps them from being issued the highest level security clearance in the White House, even though they are two of Donald Trump’s closest advisors.

More articles are also published about how no other president has ever told over 9,000 lies to the American public, in their first two years in office.

More columns are written about how Trump had said he would be too busy and probably wouldn’t have time as president to play much golf.  Also, how Trump had complained about Obama playing too much golf.  But the column now says that after only 2 years, Trump has already played more golf than Obama did in 8 years.

So, the point of all this is to show that, this is what the American people have been slowly observing over the past 2 years.  And what would they think if all of this had been kept quiet as it happened over these last 2 years?  And what if it was offered up all at once in major papers, all over one weekend after the report?

And as I asked before, what would the Republicans have done if the Obama administration had done even one tenth of what Donald Trump and his “Team” has done over the last 24 months?

Copyright G. Ater 2019