Who's more CORRUPT? By sheer numbers, the GOP of course.

[CousinIT]

https://www.sheilakennedy.net/2017/07/corruption-by-the-numbers/

There is a widespread impression that Democrats are less upstanding and law-abiding than Republicans. That may be a side effect of the excessive public piety affected by so many Republican officeholders, or the belief that a willingness to compromise on matters of policy (a willingness today’s GOP evidently considers unprincipled) signifies a corrupt “wheeler/dealer” mentality.

Until I read this, my own impression had been that there isn’t much difference between the parties when it comes to bad behavior, so I was pretty surprised by this data. (Honesty also compels me to admit to a certain amount of schadenfreude–I am deathly tired of the incessant moral/religious posturing that has come to characterize the GOP.)
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So, let’s see where that leaves us. In the last 53 years, Democrats
have been in the Oval Office for 25 of those years, while Republicans
held it for 28. In their 25 yrs in office Democrats had a total of
three executive branch officials indicted with one conviction and one
prison sentence. That’s one whole executive branch official convicted
of a crime in two and a half decades of Democrat leadership.

In the 28 yrs that Republicans have held office over the last 53 yrs
they have had a total of (a drum roll would be more than appropriate),
120 criminal indictments of executive branch officials. 89 criminal
convictions and 34 prison sentences handed down. That’s more prison
sentences than years in office since 1968 for Republicans. If you want
to count articles of impeachment as indictments (they aren’t really
but we can count them as an action), both sides get one more. However,
Clinton wasn’t found guilty while Nixon resigned and was pardoned by
Ford (and a pardon carries with it a legal admission of guilt on the
part of the pardoned). So those only serve to make Republicans look
even worse.

With everything going on with Trump and his people right now, it’s a
safe bet Republicans are gonna be padding their numbers a bit real
soon.

So let’s just go over the numbers one more time, shall we? 120
indictments for Republicans. 89 convictions, and 34 prison sentences.
Those aren’t “feelings” or “alternate facts.” Those are simply the
stats by the numbers. Republicans are, and have been for my entire
lifetime, the most criminally corrupt party to hold the office of the
presidency.

[BigmanPigman]

1. Law and Order party my ass!

Corrupt and greedy is more like it.

[abqtommy]

2. I wouldn't brag on being less corrupt than reTHUGS;

the level of their corruption sets the bar really low!

[Grins]

3. My file...

Like all things it started small. Notes to myself, starting in 2000, to counter the BS coming from the right, the pompous, self/righteous politicized moralizers EAGER to blame anything on Democrats.

It got out of hand. By 2005 I had maybe 800+ pages of Republican malfeasance, criminality, moral debauchery, hypocrisy, sexual perversion, and more.

My file is titled “Republican Family Values”.

And I am STILL collecting them! I have Hundreds of them. And hundreds more that I haven’t had time to process.

I admit my intent from day one was to find Republican criminals, liars, and deviants, so I only looked for Republicans. That said, in looking I found Democrats! But what I can tell you is that for every Democrat I found, I could easily find 8-10 Republicans.

Your assumption? It’s correct.

Postscript: You went back to Nixon. The rule I set for myself was nothing before January 1993, when Clinton was inaugurated.