Well OF COURSE they supported him! He backed their agenda! McCain is one of them!
Well OF COURSE they supported him! He backed their agenda! McCain is one of them!
“All the more reason he should have been stripped of office, prosecuted and convicted, and sent into isolation after the Keating 5 scandal.”
George H.W. Bush was president during the Keating 5 scandal. His Justice Department made the decision not to prosecute McCain and the other 4 scoundrels who seemed to be minimally involved in influence peddling. Why?
A logical explanation is another member of the Keating 5 was Senator John Glenn, the first American in space. The implication of a successful prosecution of the 5 Senators would be America’s astronaut hero going to prison. It is possible Bush did not want to the publicity of such a prosecution.
A second explanation is “separation of powers” between the executive and legislative branch. Bush may have felt Congress should investigate and punish its own members. Prosecuting 5 US Senators would have set a significant precedent which in the future could have precipitated political prosecutions. Given 4 of the 5 Keating Senators were Democrats, no doubt the press and the Democrats in Congress would have pilloried Bush for prosecuting the 4 Dems.
A third explanation is McCain had dirt on Bush.
A fourth explanation is a prosecution would have opened Pandora’s box and revealed even more corruption in Congress, potentially resulting in a loss of citizen confidence in the system.
Whatever the reason, a decision was made by the Bush DOJ, or Bush himself not to prosecute criminal activity by five members of the US Senate. Very sad for the country.