Where is the check on the White House?
I am nostalgic for the 1990s and the charming, straightforward scandals from the Clinton White House such as Whitewater. Bill and Hillary slipped off the hook and paid their own lawyers. Contrast that with today’s White House and its unprecedented sleaze-meister who demands a slush fund for himself, Medicare fraudsters, and Jan. 6 thugs and criminals. Where is today’s Newt Gingrich to call foul on all of this?
What if the Clintons then had proposed such a slush fund? Though loathsome as he was in the ’90s, Gingrich was a prominent Republican watchdog of the White House that is so lacking today. All of these feeble Democrats seem to rely on the courts to sort out Trump’s shameless larceny. Republicans only celebrate him, of course, and never check him. Congress is gutless.
John Burke
Lookout Mountain