Here's a List of Democrats Acting AG Matt Whitaker Wanted to Investigate

[demmiblue]

Before he worked at the White House, Matthew Whitaker was executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a conservative ethics watchdog. There, he made full use of the opportunity to call for investigations into multiple Democrats.

Whitaker will replace Jeff Sessions as acting attorney general, having been his chief of staff. Sessions was asked to resign by President Donald Trump, who has long been angry at his recusal from oversight of the Mueller investigation.

The acting attorney general is seen as a Trump loyalist who, like the president, is critical of the special counsel’s probe. He has called for it to be limited in scope.

If Mueller explores the Trump family finances, Whitaker wrote for CNN in 2017, it would fall outside the scope set by the justice department and “raise serious concerns that the special counsel's investigation was a mere witch hunt.”

According to his LinkedIn profile, Whitaker was at FACT from October 2014 to September 2017. During that time, FACT called for ethics investigations into or filed complaints about the following Democratic politicians, officials, and organizations:

The DNC, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Sidney Blumenthal, Sen. Mark Warner, data firm Catalist, Correct the Record PAC, NexGen Climate Action Committee, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Sen. Thomas Carper; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Alan Grayson, Rep. Patrick Murphy, Rep. Ami Bera, Rep. Jarred Huffman, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, Rep, Keith Ellison, Rep. Alcee Hastings, Rep. Hank Johnson, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz; Senate candidates Joe Sestak, Katie McGinty, Patrick Murphy, Ted Strickland, Evan Bayh, Catherine Cortez Masto; House candidates Tom Nelson, Steve Santarsiero, Suzanna Shkreli, Ruben Kihuen, Jim Mowrer, Colleen Deacon, Pete Gallego, Doug Applegate, Bryan Caforio, Morgan Carroll, LuAnn Bennett, Christina Hartman, Stephanie Murphy, Michael Eggman, Mike Derrick; the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, Jobs and Opportunity PAC, and Rep. John Lewis's Chief of Staff Michael Collins.

That is 46 individuals or organizations. Yet over the same time period just a couple of Republicans were the subjects of similar calls and complaints by FACT, which pitches itself as “non-partisan.”

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[Ilsa]

1. I wish someone would turn up some serious dirt

on this asshole. I'd love to see him removed.

[Tripper11]

2. oh there's dirt...and it will come...hopefully sooner than later

nothing guiltier or dirtier than someone that wants to investigate everyone else!

[2naSalit]

3. +1

[LeftInTX]

4. Sounds like Judicial Watch