by Frank Holmes, reporter
The Democrats are so desperate to impeach Donald Trump they were willing to partner with anybody to make it happen — and their blind hatred just blew up in their face.
The Democrat who’s been one of the loudest about throwing the president out of office just got busted in two ugly scandals, and now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is running for cover.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, was caught with her hand in the cookie jar on Saturday. Critics say she lied to cover up tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from liberal billionaire George Soros.
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The first scandal is that Tlaib decided that running for Congress is hard work — so she paid herself a salary to do it.
Campaign records show that every other week she took her campaign donations and cut a check in her own name for $2,000.
All in all, she skimmed off a cool $45,500 from her war chest over eight months.
That’s shady—and part of what she did is outright illegal, critics say.
According to campaign finance law, a candidate can only draw a salary during an election—but two of her checks came after the election was over.
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“If the candidate wins the primary election, his or her principal campaign committee may pay him or her a salary from campaign funds through the date of the general election, up to and including the date of any general election runoff,” the law says. But “no salary payments may be paid beyond the date he or she is no longer a candidate.”
But Tlaib’s campaign paid her twice after she got elected the first Palestinian Muslim elected to Congress, for a total of $17,500.
That’s a huge black eye for the fire-breathing anti-Trumper.
On the night she was elected, she screamed, “We’re going to impeach the mother f—er!”— but now it’s her that’s caught in the legal trap. And that’s just the beginning.
The other half of Tlaib’s legal trouble is that she lied on campaign records to cover the fact that a huge chunk of her funding came from left-wing billionaire George Soros.
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The Michigan leftist has to account for all her income for legal reasons, but it looks like she conveniently forgot a huge wad of cash from the globalist billionaire.
Tlaib admitted that she made $68,307 from a “Leadership in Government Fellowship” in 2017, but she didn’t name the group behind that fellowship — and The Horn News has learned why.
Tax records show that Soros’ Open Society Institute paid Tlaib $85,307 for her services.
As a matter of fact, she pocketed nearly a quarter of a million dollars from Soros in just two years, not counting her income as a social justice lawyer in Detroit!
How was she earning that money? A Soros spokesman said Tlaib’s project was “to focus on increasing the civic participation of disenfranchised urban communities of color.”
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Running for Congress in a largely minority Detroit-district with a huge Muslim population would definitely qualify!
So, was Soros paying her to run for Congress?
If so, how much does she owe the shadowy international figure?
Tlaib is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and once wrote an article for racist, anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan’s newspaper.
Since Tlaib got elected, she’s proved there’s no radical cause she won’t get behind — and no tactic she won’t stoop to.
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She claimed Congressmen who support Israel “forgot what country they represent,” called a black woman “a prop,” smeared Republican Mark Meadows as a “racist,” and defended fellow Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar after she ranted about Jewish conspiracy theories.
But after she claimed Donald Trump is a criminal, it’s pretty humiliating that Tlaib may just be the first one to face the music—and she’s not alone.
The Michigan leftist is facing legal troubles at the same time as the darling of the Democratic Party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The Bronx socialist got caught funneling thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to her live-in boyfriend.
And a fresh scandal shows Cortez may have engaged in “massive” campaign violations in a conspiracy with her chief of staff, illegally steering thousands of dollars from a PAC they control into a private business that they also benefit from.
“If this were determined to be knowing and willful, they could be facing jail time,” Smith said.
President Trump may just have the last laugh as his two biggest enemies are carted off to the slammer.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”