Posted on 03/28/2015 4:43:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) explains his shocking decision to not seek re-election and retire when his term ends in 2016 by telling the New York Times, “he was worried his race would consume campaign money that would be needed in other competitive states as Democrats try to regain control of the Senate.”
“I think it is unfair for me to be soaking up all the money to be re-elected with what we are doing in Maryland, in Pennsylvania, in Missouri, in Florida,” Reid told the Times.
Reid said neither his recent eye injury nor concern over his chances of winning played a factor in his decision.
But the real reason Reid is retiring may have nothing to do with any of these excuses and everything to do with his concerns that a possible Republican Presidential victory in 2016 would lead to the appointment of a Republican Attorney General in January 2017.
A Republican Attorney General would be almost certain to initiate a criminal investigation into Reid’s abuse of his political power in a brazen intervention in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) issuance of EB-5 visas to investors in a Las Vegas casino and hotel that was represented by his son, Rory Reid, as was highlighted in a report released by the Inspector General of DHS last week.
“I think Harry Reid’s getting out of town ahead of the posse,” former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova tells Breitbart News.
On Thursday, the non-profit group Cause of Action called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch a criminal investigation of Reid. Citing the specific federal statutes that were violated, the group said Reid “participat[ed] in unlawful political activity, possible coercion and fraud related to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.”
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Dingy is up to his ears in it. Holder held off the FBI not too long ago.
They were investigating him in 2004 with a GOP president. Too late now.
That would work. President Cruz directing an honorable AG to power wash the DC cesspool.
Exactly...All excellent points.
The loss or near loss of an eye, severe facial bruises and broken ribs yet no one is concerned what machine caused it.
There should be nothing standing in the way of his prosecution whether in or out of office.
Too many of these clowns slide by simply leaving office and being forgotten.
And that’s just only the beginning. Reid could be tried for a major violation of Federal law against violation of privacy and disclosure rights over the possibility that he may have gotten the private IRS tax return filings of Mitt Romney—violations that could land him a couple of years in Federal prison.
Agreed
Johnny “The personal Trainer” Gotti.
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Or somebody maka him offer he no cana refusa.
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He’s prbably lucky that he didn’t get a one way trip to the desert in the trunk of a Cadillac.
CC
Good point.
If a rubber band would have broken on Zhika Zhizinski's exercise machine that gave her a world class shiner, you would never hear the end of the LSM hounding the machine's maker.
With Dingy Harry, silence.
Wanna bet the Nevada Wise Guys decided to punk him knowing he had a certain rep as a half-assed boxer way back then?
How about the double standard Fourth Estate?
Do they get a pass?
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Cruz will be the president.
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Yep, I understand Personal Trainers make good money and are effective.
no. i don’t. i haven’t read anything about alternative theorys for his “accidents”. and i love a good story. you have any links?
I refuse to take a nutty and swear and express my true sentiments out on this site concerning this Reid rogue.
I just have to say that there is a God in heaven, and one day the books will be opened, and for certain, I would not want to be called ‘Harry
Reid’ when that day comes.
He’s leaving to help his party regain control of the Senate by placing them another Senator further away from that objective? Certainly won’t miss him, or his lies.
why does being out of office protect him? he still committed the crimes?
We will never know who beat the crap out of him
How does leaving help him? Wouldn’t staying in office be the safer route?
His coming prosecution may be true but it doesn’t explain why he is dropping out.
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