The GAO has been getting a lot of attention lately for claiming that President Trump "broke the law," and it doesn't deserve it.

I don't recall the GAO saying that Congress broke the law by misusing taxpayer money to set up a slush fund to pay out claims to protect members of Congress.

We are told that $17 million was paid out over decades to pay 268 claims.  We don't know what the claims were, we don't know whom the claims were against, and we don't know who was paid, so why should we believe that only $17 million was paid?

It is a great story of how little legislative bodies throughout the United States care about ethics, taxpayer money, transparency, and policing their own.

The media and other Democrats said that when Trump used personal money to pay off blackmailing Stormy Daniels, that somehow violated campaign financing laws.  That is idiotic, but wasn't this slush fund used specifically to protect people in power?  Using taxpayer money for personal purposes surely should violate campaign financing laws, but members of Congress always consider themselves special, and the media protect most of them.

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I don't remember Pelosi, the media, the GAO, and other Democrats ever giving a damn about other presidents withholding money from things Congress has approved.

I don't remember Pelosi, the GAO, the media, and other Democrats caring that when Obamacare came up short of money, President Obama illegally stole money from other things Congress approved to pay for the shortfalls.

Did the GAO or Pelosi care when Obama used $1.8 billion of taxpayer money to bribe Iranian leaders without congressional approval?

Did the GAO or Pelosi care when, under Obama, the Justice Department, CFPB, and EPA stole taxpayer money to establish slush funds to be used for political purposes and to give kickbacks to political supporters?

Did the GAO care with all the kickbacks Obama gave to his political supporters with the stimulus bill like Solyndra?

Did the GAO care when the Justice Department, intelligence agencies, and other agencies used so much taxpayer money to protect Hillary and target Trump and his associates before and after the 2016 election.  Did Congress authorize money to target political opponents?  Isn't it clearly a violation of the Hatch Act for members of the Executive Branch to spend so much time on what clearly were political activities?  What about the IRS clearly spending so much time and money seeking to shut up Obama's political opponents?

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But President Trump holds back funds for a couple of months in Ukraine, which they got by the end of the fiscal year, and suddenly, on the day Pelosi finally turned over the impeachment articles to the Senate, the swamp creatures at the GAO, who pretend to be non-partisan, issue a report that Trump broke the law.  How is it breaking the law when Ukraine got the money before the due date in the law?  I bet they wouldn't have found a crime if Biden and Obama held back $1 billion if the prosecutor wasn't fired.

Does anybody believe that it was a coincidence that Pelosi sends over the impeachment articles on the day the GAO magically makes up a report that says Trump broke the law?  The GAO report is as fictional as the Russian dossier.  Or maybe Pelosi had to wait to deliver the articles until those special pens were designed, ordered, and delivered for the "solemn" signing ceremony.

The 535 members of Congress have always thought they were special and better than the rest of us.

In the 1990s, it was the House banking scandal, where hundreds of members of Congress had the privilege of using taxpayer money when theirs ran out without penalties.  And these people write the laws that we ordinary people must obey.

It is no wonder that so many politicians and other members of the swamp are so unethical and dishonest when the media spend so much time protecting politicians whose policies they support and targeting those they don't.  Facts haven't mattered for a long time.

And the media and other members of Congress want Trump impeached because they don't like what he does, not because of breaking any laws.

I have heard many people say they don't believe that the media and Democrats understand Trump, but I believe that is not true.

I think the media and other Democrats do understand Trump and what he stands for.  That is what they fear.

They are scared that if the public, especially minorities, see the economic prosperity that comes from capitalism and smaller government, the fewer votes they get.

After all, all Democrats care about is power, and they would rather have people dependent on government than giving them freedom of choice to move up the economic ladder.