Trump spent his own money. Congress spent yours

That is the single best CNN comment ever! Thanks for the meme reminding us about the Congressional indiscretions, Hardraker! SMH!

Looks like some of the $17M did go to sexual harassment.... but its unclear how much. So the OP meme is somewhat misleading but appears to based on something that was really reported on by CNN.

So you have no problem with gubmint using your money to cover indiscretion.

Oh! It was only a few sents out of your pocket.

Never said it was good.

Yet you must detract in any manner you can.

Exactly, Tom.

I just try to separate truth from bullsh*t...which in this stream sometimes seems like a needle in a haystack.

Using tax money to pay off harassment claims is crazy. The right using CNN as a source is also pretty crazy.

The fact that it is a CNN article that was referenced is amazing. Hardraker used it to bring home a huge point for the right.

I was familiar with their slush fund for indiscretions but the number was disgusting especially when outlined against non-taxpayer money allegedly paid by Trump. The OP meme wasn't "somewhat misleading" at all and Tom was smack-on to call you on that, darko.

You are just on the wrong side of this issue. Reminiscent of Octavia....his comments were on the side of thugs when my memes called for stronger policies & harsher punishment for criminals.

When you were separating "truth from bullsh*t", you probably should have taken into consideration the amount of BS that reeked during the Trump trial. You deal daily with TDS and I know it is hard...don't think I am not sympathetic as it is a huge burden! Bububut I'm not...

However, let's end on a high point of agreement, darko..."Using tax money to pay off harassment claims is crazy." Yes, indeed it is and it should have been stopped years ago when the facts came out on it.

Meme says $17 million was used to cover up sexual harassment claims... it's own source flat out disproves that.

If you're going to compare monetary figures from Congress and Trump in a whataboutism type game.... you should at least get the figures correct. And maybe not post a source disproving your own claim.

Also to be clear...
1. Legally (?) using tax money to pay off Congress harassment claims is not good.

2. Trump paying off pornstars he f***ed to not say anything ahead of an election and illegally trying to hide it as a legal fees to his lawyer is also not good.

Both are not good.

Let me guess.. One is worse? Maybe. If we're going solely off figures.. but we don't actually know the congress figure for sexual harassment. What we do know is the Congress figure is regarding multiple people, over a span of decades, and for various types of settlements.

If I compared all of trump's paid off settlements over decades to one person in Congress, would that seem like an apples to apples comparison?

He committed misdemeanors. Prosecuted on trumped up felonies.

Hillary basically the same misdemeanor. She received a fine.

BTW That is not whataboutism, just plain facts.

1. Did Hillary falsify business records in order to facilitate another crime, elevating it (or as you would say trumping it up) to a felony?

2. Did she do it in New York?

3. "Plain facts" or not, it is a whataboutism by definition.

Trump did something... what about Hillary..

If the shoe was on the other foot and someone was talking about Biden and I mentioned facts about trump... all I would hear from the right is "TDS much?" whataboutism, etc..b

Hilarie's crimes were national security related. You leftists have no love for our country, so it matters not to you.

The deep state had something on Comey and he pretty much exonerated her.

Her "crimes".. ok. Sorry bub. I can barely even take yall seriously anymore. Too much bullsh*t from the right.

Hillary clinton and her whole family seems to be guilty until proven innocent... Joe Biden and his whole family is guilty until proven innocent... probably all the democrats and their families are guilty until proven innocent. Seems I recently heard something about a tweet or some statement from some right wing candidate openly stating something about wanting to just blanket incarcerate as many democrats as possible. Meanwhile for 8 years all I hear about was trump is "innocent until proven guilty, innocent until proven guilty".... ok well now he's been proven guilty. Well.... no but he's still innocent. It doesn't count because reasons. Hillary Clinton.
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Ah yes..Comey... the guy who announced the FBI re-opening the investigation into her emails literally right before she lost the 2016 election....(which ended up being yet another hillary nothingburger..). So whatever you claim the deepstate allegedly had on him must've happened after 2016.