Democrat Ethics Loudmouth Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Finds Himself in Corruption Scandal of His Own

Rhode Island Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is one of those lawmakers like Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who consistently use highfalutin' rhetoric and “dangers to Democracy” statements to act like they’re these great, above-it-all-statesmen—all the while trampling on our actual liberty and undermining our constitutional system.

Schiff, if you’ll recall, promised for years that he had evidence that Donald Trump was involved in Russian collusion, yet he never produced an ounce of said evidence; Schumer, meanwhile, blatantly threatened Supreme Court Justices with violence because he didn’t agree with their rulings.

But now the oh-so-saintly (terribly named) Whitehouse is embroiled in an ethics scandal of his own:

Legal experts are pointing out what they say is hypocrisy as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., faces an ethics complaint over a potential conflict of interest that resulted in millions of dollars in federal grants for a nonprofit associated with his wife. 

"Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who has made his political career accusing others of dark money corruption, appears to be throwing stones in his glass house," said Mike Davis, the former chief counsel for nominations to former Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

"This is the height of hypocrisy," Brett Tolman, former U.S. attorney and executive director of Right On Crime, told Fox News Digital. "Sen Whitehouse is a former US attorney and the self-proclaimed watchdog of dark money."

Oops. Might be time to climb off your high horse, Sheldon.

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Whitehouse, it would seem, has been busy funneling money to his wife’s non-profit, and it’s not some unfortunate accident, according to watchdogs:

Whitehouse voted for legislation that ultimately provided millions of dollars in funding for grants to environmental nonprofit group Ocean Conservancy, which works with his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, (photo below)

and pays her through a consulting firm. 

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), an ethics watchdog, wrote to Senate Select Committee on Ethics Chair James Lankford, R-Okla., and Vice Chair Chris Coons, D-Del., this week, asking them to investigate Whitehouse "to determine whether he violated the Senate ethics rules on conflicts of interest." The group works primarily to draw attention to potential Democrat lawmaker ethics violations. 

"This is not just a careless ethical lapse in judgment," Tolman added. "This is corruption, Washington, D.C., style. This is literally what many public officials have been prosecuted for by DOJ (Department of Justice). I’m aware of multiple cases DOJ is pursuing right now with less egregious facts."

We’ll see where this goes, but for now it certainly seems like there’s smoke that is potentially going to lead to fire. Whitehouse appears to epitomize everything that is wrong with The Swamp, and consequences may soon be forthcoming. I will not shed a tear if and when that happens.

Despite the lies from the leftist media, President Donald Trump and his administration were given a mandate to take a chainsaw to the federal government, and the American people have his back.