Democrats Still Fighting to Get Trump to Resign

Is it any wonder that the oldest member of the Senate, 83-year-old Democrat Dianne Feinstein, is considered a hypocrite by many voters in her own state?

Recently, Senator Feinstein stated to a journalist outside a fundraiser that she believes President Donald Trump will eventually be forced to resign from his position as the country’s commander-in-chief due to various scandals such as his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, which even the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) under ex-President Obama, James Clapper, has denied existed.

It’s ironic that Feinstein is hopeful that scandals involving surveillance might sink the president because, as the former chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, she blasted the White House under former President Obama for leaking national security information. Now, however, Feinstein has done an about-face and is celebrating and promoting any and all leaks coming out of the new presidential administration.

When questioned more intently about how she believes Trump will be forced to resign from office, Feinstein uttered some boilerplate about bills she’s working on in Congress dealing with conflicts of interest. But as with other matters, Feinstein might want to consider her own conflicts of interest before taking those of others into account; indeed, there are many arguments to be made that Feinstein’s entire career is one based on hypocrisy, judging from both her voting record and how she came to her position in the Senate.

Over the last several decades, Feinstein has become known by members of the National Rifle Association as one of the nation’s most ardent opponents of Second Amendment rights. She was the author of 1994’s infamous federal assault weapons ban and the leader of the 2004 effort to revive it.

But in her early career, Feinstein not only possessed a concealed-carry permit for a handgun, she was promoted to mayor of San Francisco when two of her political opponents, then-Mayor George Moscone (who had beaten her for the city’s top job in a prior election) and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were gunned down by her close ally on the city’s Board of Supervisors, Dan White.

It should be noted that while Feinstein says she acquired the firearm she formerly carried to protect herself from terrorist organizations, she also decried torture of various members of terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda under the administration of George W. Bush.

Following these violent events, Feinstein rose quickly through the ranks of the national Democratic Party, after helping the party to hold its annual national convention in her city in 1984. Before serving as mayor of San Francisco, when Feinstein was still president of the Board of Supervisors for the city, one of the other members of the Board was Ron Pelosi, the brother-in-law of future Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Feinstein ran for governor of California in 1990, but lost to Republican Senator Pete Wilson, who gave up his California Senate seat to run for the governorship. When Wilson vacated his Senate seat, Feinstein ran for it in a special election and won.

Since 1980, Feinstein has been married to billionaire investment banker Richard Blum. For the last 15 to 20 years, Feinstein has been accused of supporting government and military construction contracts that pushed money toward her husband’s companies or toward firms he served on the board of.

Between 2001 and 2005, Feinstein chaired the Senate Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies (MILCON) subcommittee, which manages military construction and quality of life issues for veterans, including housing and hospitals for wounded soldiers. During this time, MILCON allowed appropriations for $1.55 billion in construction contracts to Perini and URS Corporation, both partially owned by Blum’s investment firms at the time.

Public records show that Blum paid $4 per share when he bought Perini stock, but sold three million shares for $23.75 each in 2005. When Blum and Feinstein sold their stock in both companies, they realized capital gains worth as much as $5 million as well as between $1.3 million and $4 million from stock in real estate firm CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). During this time, Blum was a member of the boards of both CBRE and URS Corporation.

In total, during this period, the couple’s wealth rose to $40 million from $10 million. Despite this, Brian Weiss, a spokesman for Feinstein, insisted that no conflicts of interest existed. But according to anti-war left-wing journalist Peter Byrne, “From 2002 to 2005, URS and Perini went from having very little in military construction contracts to having billions of dollars in such contracts. After December 2005, Feinstein no longer had a discernible financial interest in the contracts that were vetted by MILCON because her husband abruptly divested of his family’s URS and Perini stock — taking a substantial profit worth many millions of dollars that was directly caused by the military construction bonanza.”

According to an article Byrne wrote in 2007 for Silicon Valley journal Metroactive, Feinstein “left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that [Feinstein’s husband] Blum held large investments in companies that were selling medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases — often without the benefit of competitive bidding — to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed on his wife’s watch.”

The San Francisco Chronicle agreed with Byrne’s assessment, adding that “Feinstein has also received scrutiny for husband Richard Blum’s extensive business dealings with China and her past trade issues with the country.” It alluded to URS’ stake in defense contractor EG&G that it bought from the globalist-dominated Carlyle Group in 2002. Following the URS purchase, EG&G was awarded a $600 million military contract.

It’s worth noting that the forces of globalism are not unfamiliar to the Democratic senior California senator, as Feinstein became a member of the elite Trilateral Commission, formed by former National Security Advisors Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski while still serving as San Francisco’s mayor in the early 1980s. Like the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission is thought of as an international elitist cabal by numerous conservative media commentators.

According to SEC filings, Blum’s companies owned $1 billion in stock in three companies that owed much to contracts with the VA and the Department of Defense (DoD) — Kinetic Concepts, Boston Scientific and the aforementioned CBRE. In the wake of negative publicity surrounding these deals, Feinstein resigned from the MILCON subcommittee. But her husband’s stakes in these companies — especially in real estate firm CBRE — continued to haunt her.

In 2009, the Washington Times reported that Feinstein crafted legislation that would direct $25 billion worth of taxpayer funds to the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which had just given CBRE a contract to sell foreclosed properties at rates higher than industry norms.

According to the Times, “Mrs. Feinstein’s intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual; the California Democrat isn’t a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments — not direct federal dollars.”

Tom Fitton, president of watchdog group Judicial Watch, says, “In these cases, she was voting on bills that ultimately benefited her husband’s companies… She knew — everyone knew — what would come out of those bills, and at the least, she should have known where that money could have gone, and that simply doesn’t stand scrutiny.”

Again, Feinstein’s spokesman insists that no conflicts of interest existed because the senator filled out the proper Congressional disclosure forms. But as Peter Schweizer, author of the congressional exposé Throw Them All Out, notes, “This is the standard politician’s response. They say, ‘I disclosed it, so that makes it OK,’ or ‘I don’t talk to my spouse about their financial decisions, so I’m in the clear.’ There’s a reason members of Congress are required to disclose their spouse’s financial transactions. Let’s face it — politicians have been known to be less than straightforward with the truth.”

Currently, based on surveys, most Californians believe Feinstein is too old to serve another term in the Senate; in 2018, when her term is up, she’ll be 85 years old. A 2015 editorial in the Los Angeles Times concurred with this sentiment and argued that among other matters, Feinstein’s views on marijuana are out of step with her state’s voters’ ideas on how the substance should be administered to medical patients in need.

Like Republican Senator John McCain (who will outlast Feinstein’s term in the Senate by four years, becoming its newest “oldest-serving” member), Feinstein’s opposition to President Trump and his administration’s policies seems more based on longtime loyalties and hypocritical knee-jerk reactions than any kind of logic.


Most Popular

These content links are provided by Content.ad. Both Content.ad and the web site upon which the links are displayed may receive compensation when readers click on these links. Some of the content you are redirected to may be sponsored content. View our privacy policy here.

To learn how you can use Content.ad to drive visitors to your content or add this service to your site, please contact us at [email protected].

Family-Friendly Content

Website owners select the type of content that appears in our units. However, if you would like to ensure that Content.ad always displays family-friendly content on this device, regardless of what site you are on, check the option below. Learn More



Most Popular
Sponsored Content

These content links are provided by Content.ad. Both Content.ad and the web site upon which the links are displayed may receive compensation when readers click on these links. Some of the content you are redirected to may be sponsored content. View our privacy policy here.

To learn how you can use Content.ad to drive visitors to your content or add this service to your site, please contact us at [email protected].

Family-Friendly Content

Website owners select the type of content that appears in our units. However, if you would like to ensure that Content.ad always displays family-friendly content on this device, regardless of what site you are on, check the option below. Learn More