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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

House Ethics Committee filing guidelines state that members must disclose bank accounts they have at every financial institution, as long as the account holds at least $1,000 and the combined value of all accounts—including those belonging to their spouse and dependent children—exceeds $5,000.

Dude is either a broke Republican, he's hiding his money in offshore accounts, or he's donating so much money to his church that he's effectively broke.

Either way, he's doing it wrong.

[–] FlyingSquid 42 points 1 year ago

He has to be able to afford those suits. He's hiding his money.

[–] Supervisor194 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If there is a plausible scenario that involves him straight-up lying, not giving a single fuck and telling anyone who is asking that they can go fuck themselves - well, that's the explanation I would go with.

[–] EmpathicVagrant 2 points 1 year ago

Simplest answer something something

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's zero chance he's a broke Republican.

[–] Ghostalmedia 4 points 1 year ago

Broke Republicans exist. They’re just not the ones in elected office. They’re the ones being duped by the ones in elected office.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or he is "buried gold" level unhinged.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

And if that's true, that's an asset and would constitute an ethics violation. I sincerely hope it's that one, and we can start calling him "Pirate Mike."

[–] dantheclamman 11 points 1 year ago

Whatever the reason, it's probably not good.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

Everyone remember when Senator Menendez's home was searched and they found hundreds of thousands in cash and gold bars - and he tried to explain it away with a bogus story about his family's fear of banks?

Just sayin' ....

[–] RePsyche 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he had some shenanigans going on.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's a Christian nationalist evangelical. Of course he has shenanigans going on.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Witchfire 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It’s for those who think the first sentence has too many words.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Succinctly, yes.

[–] FuglyDuck 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At first it thought it was going to be about how biblical takes on interest is that it’s fucking evil.

I’m disappointed that it’s just “mere” corruption.

[–] Zerlyna 1 points 1 year ago