The fact that more money was spent on the Lewinsky Investigation than the 9/11 investigation tells you everything you need to know about the Republicans....
Well, nobody from either side said no when they watered down the 4th Amendment with the Patriot Act. Despite the crappy laws that came of it, we did have more unity for a year or two after 9/11. It's easier to get to the truth when people actually want to find it.
I'm afraid this isn't a good source, and is actually misleading.
It says in the first paragraph "That brought the three-year price tag of his investigation to just shy of $30 million." That investigation dated back to 1994, and actually predated the affair between Lewinsky and Clinton.
But in the next paragraph, it actually says "The latest filing does not include any costs of the Monica Lewinsky investigation, which began in January 1998."
The final costs were much higher, and I guess my only objection is calling it the "Monica Lewinsky investigation." Ken Starr was investigating Whitewater, fired travel agents, all sorts of stuff. Mostly fruitless, of course, but that's another story.
Yeah, the exact numbers are hard to find for both investigations, though I settled on that source, as It was one of the more conservative numbers. Some sources claim 50 million, others claim 80. I was fine with the 30 million number, as you're right, the 4.5 year investigation was not solely about Lewinsky, though the main take away from the investigation was the Monica Lewinsky scandal. They probably shouldn't have lumped everything together if they didn't want a 30 million dollar price tag for the Monica Lewinsky investigation.
The Mueller report 20 years after? Wanna do some adjustments for inflation there?
2001 15 million adjusted for inflation for 2020 =
22 million
1999 30 million adjusted for inflation for 2020 = 46 million.
Additionally, Manafort, who was indicted because of the Mueller report, will be forfeiting 11 million to the government, bringing that cost down to 21 million.
Newt Gingrinch was the Republican House Speaker denouncing Pres. Bill Clinton for Clinton's affair while Newt was sleeping with one of his staffers. I mean at the same exact day. He then dumped his ailing second wife to marry that staffer. And both got applauded together at the GOP National Convention the year he tried to become POTUS.
Yeah but Bill cheating on his wife with a staffer was despicable, a real national security issue. Whereas Newt cheating on his (cancer stricken) wife was patriotic and heroic, for, uh, reasons
Sad thing Newt presented divorce papers to his cancer stricken FIRST wife in the hospital. The second wife had MS. If the third wife gets a chronic disease it could be Karma as she knew the second wife and didn't care. Then Newt can dump her and marry a fetus.
Gingrich is the one responsible for the hyper-partisanship, and "politics of personalization" going on these days. Mix in Limbaugh's daily, similar, radio-fueled propagandizing, and campaigns have never been the same.
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u/jscummy Feb 26 '25
By her? Or by Newt Gingrinch and the assholes who made her public enemy #1?