Fee­ling the Bust – III

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Fee­ling the Bust – III
 
 
Loot­ing Funds. Money Laun­de­ring. Fraud. These ludi­crous accu­sa­ti­ons were what Jeff Wea­ver came up with to ‘expose’ the Clin­ton cam­paign. Of course nothing illegal was expo­sed, it was just ano­ther low in the smear cam­paign that has become the tra­de­mark of Ber­nie & Co.

Who exactly is this mys­te­rious Jeff Wea­ver? One can’t find much of sub­stance on Sena­tor San­ders’ for­mer dri­ver and office boy, who wor­ked himself up to become the Senator’s chief of staff. He appe­ars to be a que­ru­lant sus­pen­ded from Bos­ton Uni­ver­sity, who hung out with Ber­nie for a while, then nee­ded a break from The Hill and ope­ned a comic book store in Vir­gi­nia. There he became the proud owner of a rare comic col­lec­tion, that inclu­ded ‘obscure items such as an Ame­ri­can Can­cer Soci­ety-fun­ded car­toon about a quack doc­tor named Phi­neas P. Fraud’. (That must have been a source of inspiration.)

Then Ber­nie cal­led upon him once more, this time to become his cam­paign mana­ger for the pre­si­den­tial elec­tion 2016. Somehow my gut tells me that Sen. San­ders never really had the ambi­tion to become the 45th pre­si­dent of the Uni­ted Sta­tes of Ame­rica, but found himself a cam­paign lea­der who did aspire to the power of brin­ging his old pal to the hig­hest office in this world. That might explain why the Sena­tor himself usu­ally limits himself to uncom­for­ta­bly moc­king his oppo­nent and lea­ving the out­right slan­der to his disciples. 

Hil­lary Clin­ton doesn’t play that game. She could have easily played dirty and mean, and boy, would she have had plenty of ammo to expose!
 

Antony Oomen
10.V/2016
Amsterdam