Rhode Island Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is one of those lawmakers like Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who consistently use dangerous and targeted rhetoric against Trump, touting his “criminality’ and “dangers to Democracy.” These hypocrites love to position themselves as being “above it all while trampling on our actual liberty and undermining our constitutional system.
Schiff, if you’ll recall, promised for years that he had evidence that Donald Trump was involved in Russian collusion, yet he never produced an ounce of said evidence; Schumer, meanwhile, blatantly threatened Supreme Court Justices with violence because he didn’t agree with their rulings.
But now the sanctimonious Whitehouse is embroiled in an ethics scandal of his own:
Legal experts are pointing out what they say is hypocrisy as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., faces an ethics complaint over a potential conflict of interest that resulted in millions of dollars in federal grants for a nonprofit associated with his wife.
“Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who has made his political career accusing others of dark money corruption, appears to be throwing stones in his glass house,” said Mike Davis, the former chief counsel for nominations to former Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
“This is the height of hypocrisy,” Brett Tolman, former U.S. attorney and executive director of Right On Crime, told Fox News. “Sen Whitehouse is a former US attorney and the self-proclaimed watchdog of dark money.”
It seems that Whitehouse has been busy funneling money to his wife’s nonprofit, and it’s not some unfortunate accident, according to the ethics watchdogs. Whitehouse voted for legislation that ultimately provided millions of dollars in funding for grants to environmental nonprofit group Ocean Conservancy, which works with his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, and pays her through a consulting firm.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), an ethics watchdog, wrote to Senate Select Committee on Ethics Chair James Lankford, R-Okla., and Vice Chair Chris Coons, D-Del., this week, asking them to investigate Whitehouse “to determine whether he violated the Senate ethics rules on conflicts of interest.” The group works primarily to draw attention to potential Democrat lawmaker ethics violations.
“This is not just a careless ethical lapse in judgment,” Tolman added. “This is corruption, Washington, D.C., style. This is literally what many public officials have been prosecuted for by DOJ (Department of Justice). I’m aware of multiple cases DOJ is pursuing right now with less egregious facts.”
We’ll see where this goes, but for now, it certainly seems like there’s smoke that is potentially going to lead to fire. Whitehouse appears to epitomize everything that is wrong with Washington and now that thar’s a new sheriff in town, consequences may soon be forthcoming for him and his fellow Big D swamp dwellers.