Did You Ever Imagine Abramoff Would Be A DC Player Again? He's Out Of Jail-- And Attacking AOC And The Green New Deal

I was shocked to learn that Jack Abramoff is still working as a DC lobbyist. I thought he was selling kosher pizza for a living. Who would be seen with him? Who would even take his call? He was involved with so many scandals that Wikipedia has a unique page called Jack Abramoff Scandals, not a topic... its own page. A couple of reminders. Abramoff was College Republican National Committee National Chairman from 1981 to 1985, a founding member of the International Freedom Foundation, whose only function was to whitewash apartheid in South Africa. As a lobbyist, he was a principle for Preston Gates & Ellis (now defunct) and then for Greenberg Traurig, two firms in DC notorious for bribing members of Congress. Abramoff was only sentenced to 6 years in prison-- and only served about 4-- even though the was involved with a Mafia-style murder in the SunCruz Casino scandal he and Tom DeLay pulled off. Two movies were made about his notoriety: Casino Jack and the United States of Money and Casino Jack, both in 2010.

People have short attention spans. Only 3 members of Congress went to prison with Abramoff-- Bob Ney (R-OH), Rick Renzi (R-AZ) and Randy Duke Cunningham (R-CA) but plenty of congressional and Bush Cabinet staffers were also found guilty of various charges and took falls for their bosses. Leaving aside the Bush administration crooks, among those found guilty on the congressional side were top staffers for Don Young (R-AK), Ney of course, John Doolittle (R-CA), Kit Bond (R-MO), Roy Blount (R-MO), Tom DeLay (R-TX), Ernest Istook (R-OK), Dick Armey (R-TX), Thad Cochran (R-MS). House majority leaderTom DeLay was forced to resign from Congress. Among the Republicans who lost their immediate reelection bids because of their part in Abramoff's scandals were Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) and Richard Pombo (R-CA), but other crooked Abramoff associates eased out of politics, including Duncan Hunter (R-CA)-- the crooked father, not the crooked son-- and Jerry Lewis (R-CA).

So... wasn't I surprised to learn that Abramoff is now fundraising in support of conservative candidates by attacking the Green New Deal! "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez," he wrote in a right-wing fundraising letter, "wasn’t even in diapers when I started fighting the Left, and I’m about to teach her and her cronies a few things they are going to wish they never learned-- and it won’t just be a math lesson... I’m the Left’s worst nightmare. For nearly 40 years, I’ve been studying their tactics and defeating them. Like President Trump, I’ve even been abused by them and lived to share my stories of how the Deep State tried to take me down... forever. They only won once, and now I’m ready to return the favor... These socialists are so confused, and their messaging is getting worse by the minute. They seem to think that cows and airplanes are a threat to our future. Sounds to me like they have been infected by Mad Cow Disease! The radial Left counts disgusting anti-Semites and traitors in their ranks. Their efforts don’t go into making America Great Again-- they spend their days trying to impose a 70% or even 90% tax on you, force their Green New Deal down your throat, and make you pay for slave reparations-- all while forecasting to Iran and radical Muslim terrorists that, if they take control, America will abandon our most reliable ally, Israel... As anyone who has followed my career knows: I play for keeps and know every trick the Left uses to attack and defeat American patriots-- so watch out!"

Of course, the funny part is that he wants to get his hands into conservatives' pockets so he can steal their money, a fate they more than deserve. Nor should it surprise anyone to know that Abramoff has been supporting Trump and helping facilitate the illegal flow of Russian money into the Trump campaign.

Reporting for Splinter, Rafi Schwartz, wrote that Abramoff-- "the poster boy for Beltway corruption"-- is lobbying against the Green New Deal. I would like to see which members of Congress have any financial interaction with Jack Abramoff. Wouldn't you?



Would you rather hear about this stuff right from the horse's mouth rather than from Kevin Spacey playing him, or even Bob Schieffer analyzing him? OK-- fair enough! So... meet the actual, real life "Casino Jack"-- Republican Party scumbag-forever-and-ever, Jack Abramoff: