The D.C. Double Standard

If there is anything that the Donald Trump Presidency has brought clearly into focus it is the D.C. Double Standard.

I think we all understood a double standard was in place when it came to press coverage. Democrats just get much better coverage than Republicans. That is understood. However, I don't think most knew how deep the double standard was within the government bureaucracy. I guess that is why it has now become known as "the deep state."

It should comes as no surprise if you look at the election results for 2016. Most people who work in and around the District of Columbia are Democrats. They certainly did not want an outsider like Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States.

To show you how deeply the deep state does not like Donald Trump take a look at the vote totals in the District of Columbia for 2016. Trump only got 4.1% of the votes.

Trump only garnered 12,723 votes in D.C compared to 282,830 for Hillary Clinton. Third party candidates (Gary Johnson, Jill Stein) and write-ins actually got more votes collectively than did Trump in D.C!

You see similar patterns, although not quite as pronounced, in the counties in Maryland and Virginia that are contiguous to D.C. Trump only got 19% of the votes in those counties.

To be clear, it is just not a deep state in D.C.  It is clearly a Democrat deep state.

You see the double standard clearly every day in the news.

Make no mistake, Donald Trump is no saint. However, it is hard to find any saints in Washington, D.C. In that respect, Trump fits right in. The only difference is that the deep state is determined to drive Trump from office while they protect and defend their own at all costs.

We are now hearing calls for Trump's impeachment due to a payment that was made to a woman who Trump allegedly had sex with ten years before he even ran for President. This relates to the guilty plea of his attorney, Michael Cohen, to an FEC violation among other crimes unrelated to Trump.

However, when Bill Clinton had sex with a young intern in the Oval Office, and then lied about it under oath, we were told it was nothing. "It was just sex". It had nothing at all to do with the performance of his duties as President. Double standard?

We are also seeing that the payments that were made to the woman are being recast as illegal campaign contributions even though the money came from Trump's personal funds and there are indications that similar payments were made in the past in similar situations before he ever ran for political office.

However, when Barack Obama was running for President there are reports that campaign operatives of Obama offered $150,000 to Reverend Jeremiah Wright to stay silent during Obama's campaign. Wright said so himself. We have no idea whether the payment was ever made because no one in the deep state ever investigated the claim. Double standard?

If this payment was made it is a major violation. Trump payments came from his own funds. The Special Counsel is arguing it is a "constructive contribution" to the campaign that was never reported. However, in the Obama case, the funds would have come from others. There would simply be no question that it was an illegal contribution.

Let's also not forget that Congress paid out $17 million to settle various sexual harassment and discrimination settlements over the last 20 years with taxpayer funds. However, there has never been a hint from anyone that this should have been considered a disguised campaign contribution to these members of Congress who benefited. Double standard?

Democrats and deep staters are also out there claiming that Trump is enriching himself in office.

Of course, this is directly contradicted by Forbes magazine last year which estimated that Trump's net worth decreased $600 million in his first year in office due to the personal funds he expended in financing his campaign and fallout to his businesses due to his "unpopularity".

Let's not forget that both the Clintons and Obamas had very little net worth when they arrived at The White House. The Clintons are now worth over $75 million. The Obamas made over $20 million in income alone between when he became a US Senator in 2005 and left the Presidency in 2017. That was before they really started cashing in after Obama left office.

In other words, the Clintons and Obamas got rich because of elected office and Trump has gotten poorer by being elected to political office. However, the claim is that Trump is enriching himself as President? Double standard?

If you want to see a classic case of enriching yourself, and taking advantage of the political system, all you have to do is look at the Clinton Foundation.

I don't think I have ever seen a more obvious and blatant case of "pay to play" in politics.

For years we have heard about the amazing works of charity that the Clinton Foundation is doing around the world.

Million and millions of dollars flowed into the coffers of the Clinton Foundation. We were told it was due to donors being so taken with such wonderful works of charity.

Donations to the Clinton Foundation averaged $250 million annually from the time that Hillary Clinton ran for President in 2008, through her tenure as Secretary of State, and then through her 2016 Presidential run.

In the year after she lost to Donald Trump donations dropped to $26.5 million---a decrease of almost 90% in one year.

What happened to all the people who wanted to support the good work of the Clinton Foundation?

Where did all of those donors go all of a sudden?

What about all that great work that the Clinton Foundation was doing?

Credit: Investors Business Daily

When there is no influence to peddle, the money dries up very, very quickly in politics.

Why is all of this not being investigated more deeply by the deep state?

Could it be be this is standard operating procedure for everyone in the deep state? Double standard?

I still don't see anything thus far that Trump has done that I did not know or presume about him when I cast my ballot two years ago.

The Democrat and Deep State game right now is simply to try to raise doubts and create distrust of Trump with his base of voters. You can see how far they are willing to go in order to do that based on how deep the double standard is on display here.

Congress can do nothing about Trump if he maintains his popularity with the voters.

We have been down this road before. Bill Clinton also had a Special Counsel investigating him. Bill Clinton also liked the ladies. That was known before his election. He perjured himself while in office attempting to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

The Republicans, who had a majority in the House, impeached Clinton for "high crimes and misdemeanors". Democrats shrugged their shoulders and said "it was just about sex". They said that it was understandable he would lie under oath when it was about sex.

The American people agreed. The economy was good and nobody wanted to rock the boat.

It is not much different today.

The people who voted Trump into office knew that they were not electing a Boy Scout. If they wanted that, Mitt Romney would be in the second term of his Presidency.

If this is all that there is, this will not go very far. If anything, Trump's actions fall far short of Clintons. All of this happened before Trump was even elected. The alleged affairs with the women were ten years ago. Clinton was actually doing IT in the Oval Office with an intern.

The Democrats and the Deep State in D.C. have been going full bore on Trump for nearly two years. Are we going to see this for another two years? A Democrat House suggests that we will.

At this point, all I see in is a huge DOUBLE STANDARD in play.

In fact, a double standard does not even begin to explain what is going on in D.C. right now.

Anyone interested in equal justice under the law should take note.

In DC and its environs I would expect that to be about one person out of ten.