Leftists commonly complain about all the influence money has in politics, but when it comes to their pet causes they, apparently, have no problem explicitly violating federal law in attempts to bribe politicians with cash
Rosie O’Donnell did as much when she tweeted an open offer of $2 million cash to any U.S. Senators willing to change their tax bill vote to ‘No.’
so how about this
i promise to give
2 million dollars to senator susan collins
and 2 million to senator jeff flakeif they vote NO
NO I WILL NOT KILL AMERICANS
FOR THE SUOER RICHDM me susan
DM me jeffno shit
2 million
cash
each— ROSIE (@Rosie) December 20, 2017
Some kind souls tried to remind her, despite contentions that politicians are bought and paid for by donors anyway, that explicitly offering cash for votes is against the law. A felony.
So what did she do? Well she doubled down, of course.
i swear
i will write them a check
— ROSIE (@Rosie) December 20, 2017
i disagree
it is obvious there is a price
corker had one
collins tooflake
almost brave
he crawled out backwards2 million to any GOP senator
who votes no
on KILLING AMERICANSMILLIONS WITH OUT HEALTH CARE
MY GOD HAVE WE NO SO
— ROSIE (@Rosie) December 20, 2017
susan – 2 million dollars cash
call if u want to negotiatedo u think your family is proud of u @sennatorcollins
woman – mother – grandmother – sister – daughter
u have betrayed us alldear god
ask for forgiveness
redeem ur soul tomorrow #NOTSEXIST pic.twitter.com/wa0QcMXNk2— ROSIE (@Rosie) December 20, 2017
Well Sens. Susan Collins (R-MA) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), though they be RINOs for sure, actually did vote to pass the tax cut package.
So far there is no news of the millions of dead people all across the country stemming from the legislation to let people keep more of their money.
There is also no news about whether or not authorities will hold the detestable and washed-up celebrity accountable for brazenly flouting the law, which is pretty clear in addressing the seriousness of the crime via the stiff penalties and prison sentence for conviction.
“18 U.S. Code § 201 criminalizes the attempted bribery of federal officials by whoever “directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official … with intent to influence any official act.”
The penalty? For Rosie, she could spend up to 15 years in jail, suffer a lifetime ban from elective office and pay up to a cool $12 million:
The statute calls for a fine of “not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be
disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.”
In court, O’Donnell would probably argue that her attempted bribe was in jest, or perhaps a syndrome of a mental illness.”
I think the jury was decided a long time ago that Rosie has a mental illness. It’s primary symptom is being unabashedly Leftist.
Lock her up.
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