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Ligyron

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3. How many GOP lawmakers or Admin officials have been charged and convicted now?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 12:33 AM

Jul 2019

86 in the past 56 years last time I checked while during the same amount of time 1 or 2 Dems were actually convicted. That's with a GOP Admin being in charge the majority of those years if they claim that's because the Dems controlled the government more.

This is a statistic that's fun to drop on GOP supporters and apologists when they speak of Democratic corruption. Shuts them right up.

The Trump admin will surely increase that number bigly before it's all over.

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The top Republican on the House Ethics committee just got nailed with major ethics complaint [View all] RandySF Jul 2019 OP

Big deal. It's not as if he broke a real law such as the Hatch Act. Marcuse Jul 2019 #1

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How many GOP lawmakers or Admin officials have been charged and convicted now? Ligyron Jul 2019 #3