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Originally Posted by lustylad
Huh? Only $3.5 million in settlement? Fucking peanuts! After the lawyers take their slice and the rest gets divvied up, those 501(c)(4) victims of Lois Lerner's crimes will be lucky to collect $20k apiece. Meanwhile, they were effectively neutered and unable to get off the ground during the entire run-up to the 2012 election.
So if I were an obama dimotard, the lesson here is... CRIME DOES PAY!!!
That $3.5 million is just chump change, especially since the feds picked up the tab. It went a long way toward helping odumbo get re-elected!
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Yes, the taxpayer picks up the tab. I'm not a Donald Trump fan. But there's more than a wee bit of irony here. The Mueller investigation is costing tons of money and getting huge amounts of press coverage. And it's over what? Russians planting stories on social media to influence an election? That's what Russians do. We do it to them. The reason Putin attacked Hillary was because she attacked him during the 2012 Russian election when she was Secretary of State. It's very unlikely Trump had any involvement in any of this, except for the moron's request on national television for the Ruskies to hack Hillary's email.
On the other hand, there's a a smoking gun, or guns, where Obama made speeches and Senators Durbin, Schumer, Franken, Levin, Shaheen, Udall, Whitehouse, Bennet, Merkley and others wrote letters to the IRS. They essentially lobbied the IRS to put the screws to right of center nonprofits. This is informative:
https://www.ifs.org/wp-content/uploa...-Signature.pdf
And the IRS complied, in part. This was not good. The IRS should be apolitical. If they're allowed to pull shit like this, what's next? Maybe they'll start auditing the tax returns of Republican donors? They do that and there may be another Tea Party, a real one, like in Boston Harbor.
So the IRS gets a piddly $3.5 million fine and the politicians get off scot free in the court of public opinion, without so much as a censure.
