The New Acting Attorney General Was Previously a Dark Money-Funded Clinton Antagonist

[JonLP24]

One of President Trump’s frequent attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions was his refusal to aggressively investigate and even prosecute Hillary Clinton. With newly named acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker in charge of the Justice Department for the foreseeable future, Trump has found an experienced Clinton antagonist to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer.

Before he joined the Justice Department as Sessions’ chief of staff, Whitaker was the executive director of the innocuously named Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (yes, it also goes by the acronym FACT). The organization, founded in 2014, largely publicized what it described as ethical lapses by prominent Democrats and requested that government agencies and law enforcement investigate them—especially if they were Hillary Clinton.

The group first gained wide public notice when it filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in early 2015 over the behavior of the Democratic data firm Catalist, which it alleged was violating election law by offering its services at too cheap rates, effectively making under-the-table campaign contributions. While this seems like an obscure bit of inside-baseball election law, Catalist’s president was longtime Clinton confidante Harold Ickes, thus putting FACT on the map as yet another conservative-movement irritant for the then-undeclared Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

The Post described FACT as “a response to watchdog[] groups on the left such as American Democracy Legal Fund and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington” and said that FACT’s initial support came from “$1 million in seed money from donors who support conservative legal causes, according to people familiar with its origins.” All Whitaker would say about his donors is that they were “some freedom-loving Americans” who didn’t live in Washington.

https://amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/matt-whitaker-foundation-accountability-civic-trust-hillary-clinton.html?__twitter_impression=true

[Iliyah]

1. Seems like majority of the appointments, judges, etc.

from this WH are Democratic Party haters. Vote these motherfuckers out! Bring back Democracy!

[duforsure]

2. Putin did the same thing in russia

Set up his kangaroo courts with judges he can control , then put into positions only those corrupt enough to promote his policies against all opposition to him. trump is following the same pattern now. Is putin behind this? He'll again be demanding Hillary , then President Obama and people in his cabinet are accused of crimes , then gone after in their corrupt courts they can control. He's trying to do this to the Supreme court now too. Don't be surprised if another one or two conservative justices aren't forced out of their positions so he can replace them with corrupted ones , and get fully approved with Mitch McConnell's backing in the Senate, like they did for kavenaugh.