Posted on 03/22/2025 6:15:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
While Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has recently been exposed as having snuck millions of taxpayer dollars to his wife’s climate-focused non-profit, millions of which ended up in her, and thus his, pocket through salary payments, the allegations of such behavior had surrounded him for months beforehand. In fact, one particularly poignant post called out his behavior in late-September of 2024 in response to an ad of his in which he decried the very sort of behavior in which he has engaged.
As background, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) called out Sen. Whitehouse for the alleged corruption involving his wife in a February 25, 2025 press release. In that release, it said, “Yesterday, the non-partisan ethics watchdog, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), filed a complaint requesting the Senate Select Committee on Ethics investigate and take appropriate action on Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.”
Continuing, FACT noted that the senator appears to have broached a serious ethics rule, saying, “Sen. Whitehouse appears to have violated the Senate Ethics Rules on conflicts of interest by advocating and voting for legislation that resulted in nearly $7 million being paid in the fall of 2024 to an organization his wife works for.”
While that came out in late February of this year, some were calling it out in 2024. Amongst those wh did so was a poster on X named Anthony D’Ellena, who is the Chairman of the Narragansett Republican Town Committee and a Republican field organizer. He, in response to a post from Sen. Whitehouse about “dark money,” noted that the hypocritical senator is the very sort of sleazy DC politician he claims to oppose.
In the video and tweet that sparked the epic rebuke from Mr. D’Ellena, Sen. Whitehouse claimed, in part, that “dark money corrodes democracy” because “politicians start to listen to some really bad people.” The rest of the video was full of similar platitudes. Captioning it, the senator wrote, “I’m working to get rid of the dark money corroding our democracy to open up a whole new future in our politics.”
Slamming that tweet and video, Mr. D’Ellana noted that Sen. Whitehouse is the very sort of politician he claims to oppose, which is a corrupt politician funded by “dark money.” D’Ellena said, “Sheldon Whitehouse is the epitome of Washington corruption. The man couldn’t be more two-faced if he tried. He loves to cry about dark money, but that’s exactly what funds his campaign.”
Continuing, he argued that the Senator has gutted important programs like Social Security and Medicare, all while claiming to help senior citizens out. He said, “Then he claims he’s protecting Social Security and Medicare when he gutted $266 billion straight out of Medicare, to push electric vehicle subsidies. That’s not helping seniors at all he’s selling them out.”
Then, calling out the sort of corruption via his wife that FACT recently drew much attention to, Mr. D’Ellena described NGO-based climate hysteria as the senator’s “family business” because of how much he has helped his wife rake in through it. Doing so, he said, “Climate change is the Whitehouse family business he’s funneled millions into his wife’s climate company. Now, he’s under an ethics investigation.”
Concluding, he noted that the allegedly quite corrupt senator doesn’t care a bit about his constituents, and thus that they should elect the Republican candidate, who unfortunately lost in November. He said, “Whitehouse doesn’t give a damn about you, me, or anyone else. He’s too busy lining his own pockets. We need to elect @repmorgan this November!”
Watch the absurd campaign ad about dark money from Sen. Whitehouse here:
VIDEO AT LINK.............
I love seeing this cr@p exposed. I knew things were bad but not this bad. Trump and Musk are exposing a lot.
“...but everyone does it “
Somebody needs to do the Nathan-the-Prophet parable routine with Whitehouse, concluding with “YOU ARE THE MAN”.
“”””I love seeing this cr@p exposed. I knew things were bad but not this bad.”””
I think the democrats were so convinced that their efforts to imprison Trump would succeed that they just acted like there was no way they would lose so they just went all out on the grifting.
RE: Sen. Whitehouse appears to have violated the Senate Ethics Rules...
Old joke by Mark Russell when the Dems started an attack on the GOP.
“Actually, the Democrats were investigated for ethics not long ago. None were found.”
I would say that this would fall under theft of Gov’t funds though fraudulent means.
Measure for Measure
Soooo… when are we going to see people going to jail? Oh wait, the Clintons set the precedent whereby no policitican goes to jail… even if murder is involved.
It’s very obvious what the real reasons are for opposition to the efforts of DOGE.
I’d be pleased to see this hypocritical scumbag thrown out of the Senate; not holding my breath.
I can’t stand that stupid asswipe. Not surprised he’s completely corrupt.
Yeah, a real scumbag but they re-elected him to 6 more years. [shaking my head in wonder].
I wonder if people who aren’t political wonks like we are ever find out about these things.
Good point.
Criminal. Hang him from his heels in a public setting.
His wife? Ooof! Uglier than homemade soap.
The only time a slimy leftist says, “Everyone does it,” is when he gets caught doing it.
Trump should have a weekly news conference detailing the corruption and fraud found that week. It’s the most effective way to get widest coverage of all these rackets.
I agree. He should keep the people informed of all of this fraud going on in our government. It is just breathtaking.
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