Some people are saying there was a donation from the Drumpf Foundation?
When do the divorce proceedings begin?
Yea its ghoulish,but he wouldn’t be in this spot if Maureen had just said no
“Vindicated”? Hardly. He was the beneficiary of a twisting themselves into a knot SCOTUS decision. But the lobbying firm he applies to will be glad to have him.
There may have not been quo but $175,000.00 in quid in your pocket made you drag your wife through the mud.
Another GOP sociopath, that’s all.
While he’s technically correct, he has still shown himself to be a slimy, self-interested politician. But then, I repeat myself.
Now that he is no longer seeking sympathy he has gone back to dyeing his hair blonde. During the trial, per his PR team and lawyers advice, he let the hair go gray to make him look older and tired all the time. And of course the media bought into the image. Because GOP.
He is a truly despicable man.
Straight to Fox News? What are the odds…
It would appear that it’s almost impossible to be convicted of giving or accepting a bribe in this country. McDonnell skates, and Trump bribes an A.G. and no one even seems to be investigating it.
This is the new normal.
Hey, where’s my medal?
You may feel vindicated but you’re still a total dick to the rest of us.
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) took a victory lap days after the Justice Department announced it was dropping corruption charges against him, saying Monday that he was "delighted to finally be vindicate
Dang, two months too late for him to be Trump’s running mate.
And we’re much the worse off for it.
If this is vindication … you weren’t vindicated, Bobby. You got off on a technicality. Your wife got bribed, and the pro quo was done at her instigation.
Gov. Bob & wife want back all the goodies they returned to Jonnie Williams, after they apologized for taking them.
However , he cannot pay off the $10Million lawyers bill . ( and no snark ) .
Re McDonnell & McAuliffe -
Full recovery and better is possible for Bob McDonnell and GREATLY in Virginia’s interests.
Not as impossible as it first appears.
Sometimes a bit of suffering makes the impossible easy.
As they say in Aikido - it is not how many times you take a fall - it is how many times you get up.
So try this on to the situation’s size:
The state of government official ethics in VA and the USA is literally God-damnably far worse & far more pervasive than you may imagine in your worst estimations.
Should Bob McDonnell choose to leave this behind - yet - even if he really could?
This whole trial process has been shockingly anomalous.
For that reason I don’t think God’s hand is off of this yet - or off of Virginia .
It seems the best is yet to be shown.
Apparently there is MUCH more to this issue IN WHOLE than any authority has been willing to publicly admit so far.
That appears ripe for change in a way that is shockingly good for Virginia and the USA.
We don’t have to start at the beginning to understand this.
We can start with the McDonnell appeal.
Bob McDonnell appealed against a conviction (18USC201 BRIBERY) that he was never convicted of. AND NEVER COULD HAVE because McDonnell does not meet that laws’ scope of US public official.
Also the 18USC201’s definition of official act
(for the consideration admitted received)
was subject to very reasonable doubt.
Bob was convicted of
18USC1951 EXTORTION’s “Obtaining property (personally) under the (mere) color of official right”
which overlaps with
VA18.2-111 EMBEZZLEMENT’s “Wrongfully and fraudulently” ..“dispose of” (in personal capacity). . . .“Any” “personal property” " tangible or intangible" . . . “Had by virtue of office” (the property belonging to the office not the officer)
See: § 18.2-111. Embezzlement deemed larceny; indictment
18 U.S. Code § 1951 - Interference with commerce by threats or violence | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
Bob McDonnell was largely convicted by the jury on his own testimony.
Yet every officer of the court and the media have all winked at the misdirection of the appeal argument.
All dissemblers or equivocators have done so for compelling reason. Every officer of the Virginia Legislature and Court has conclusively evidenced that they are guilty of VA18.2-111 felony much as Bob McDonnell is. This is true at least to the level of complicity in the VA felonies of VA16.2-111, VA18.2-481(5) and VA18.2-482. These crimes have become customary with the shared guilt of complicity and more binding EVERY officer of the VA government into their law defined RICO gang.
With the SCOTUS’ “vacating” of McDonnell’s Jury conviction the time is ripe for Bob McDonnell and Terry McAuliffe to act together to shake off that customary corruption in all branches of Virginia’s government by means Gov. McAuliffe’s very broad grant of PARDON UPON PENITENT PAROLE OATH to Bob McDonnell and every living officer of Virginia’s government. The Parole Oath is much like the Constitutional Oath of Office but with implicit meanings made explicit in regards to duty lawfully established by VA18.2-111, VA18.2-481(5) and VA18.2-482.
This Pardon upon Parole Oath effects a “Constitutional Reset” of great value, economy and ADVANTAGE to Virginia.
Taa -Daaa ! Bob is back and MUCH better than he was before!