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2021-05-22 Government Corruption
Florida Private Jet Scandal Threatens Gretchen Whitmer's Political Future
[BREITBART] Dishonesty and hypocrisy surrounding Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
’s (D) secret "personal" trip to Florida are threatening the one-time rising star’s political future.

Like other Democrat governors, Whitmer opted to impose harsh restrictions in an attempt to deal with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
in 2020. After a spike in cases towards the end of the year, she reimposed many orders through her Department of Health and Human Services after her executive orders were ruled unconstitutional in October.

In early April 2021, as coronavirus variants were growing around the country, Whitmer warned Michiganders not to go to Florida for spring break.

But what she did not say at the time was that on a Friday morning, March 12, the governor who previously was on Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter...
’s shortlist for vice president, took an unannounced trip to Florida for four days. She returned Monday evening, March 15. Whitmer was not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 at the time of the trip.

After news stories broke (including one reported exclusively by Breitbart News) that two of Whitmer’s top aides traveled to Florida and Alabama for spring break, Whitmer’s office admitted to MIRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
News on April 19 that the governor had traveled to Florida for "personal" reasons, a key claim that would complicate her future attempted explanations about the trip.

Whitmer’s office also said that she traveled "at her own expense," another claim that would be questioned after later versions of the story emerged.

Two days after the initial story broke, Whitmer continued to use her father’s health as the excuse for the trip, claiming that she went to Florida to tend to his needs and "did a lot of cooking, a lot of cleaning." The governor’s father, Richard Whitmer, is a former chief executive of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan insurance company who collected over $1.5 million in compensation in 2002, according to a 2003 MIRS News story. The elder Whitmer owns a property in West Palm Beach, Florida, tax records show.

It is not clear exactly what the nature of her father’s immediate medical emergency was which required the unvaccinated governor to travel to Florida. In fact, not long after the news broke about the Florida trip, the governor’s father was spotted in Lansing, Michigan, shopping and driving alone in his Tesla vehicle.

"It’s maddening," the governor said of the mounting criticism and allegations of hypocrisy about her Florida trip, adding, "A lot of these same people would accuse me of not having family values if I didn’t show up when a family member needed some help."

Critics have pointed to Whitmer’s "hypocrisy" on the issue, after she prevented countless families from helping their elders in Michigan nursing homes during her mandated lockdowns.

"It was certainly not spring break," she said. "I was doing both my job as governor from a distance and being that of a daughter who was helping out a parent who needed a little help."

Posted by Fred 2021-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 I don't think it's just the jet scandal.
Posted by Chris 2021-05-22 09:04||   2021-05-22 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Kinda like Newsom going to that fancy French restaurant in Napa without a mask while everybody else was limited to take out pizza. It's not that going to Florida or eating at a French restaurant hurts anybody...not like their failed policies and the billions of taxpayer dollars that get squandered or the felons who get released from prison. It's the arrogance and the hypocrisy that really pisses people off.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-05-22 12:46||   2021-05-22 12:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The question of paid for the charter of a non-charterable jet is also there.

Bribery. Lies. Bitch
Posted by Frank G 2021-05-22 13:25||   2021-05-22 13:25|| Front Page Top

#4 What a tangled web we weave, when first we lie like a rug. I do like how the explanations continually evolve as more factual facts are revealed.

The business guys that own the plane must be miffed, having gone from the governor mooching a ride to being chased by the FAA for an illegal charter.
Posted by SteveS 2021-05-22 15:56||   2021-05-22 15:56|| Front Page Top

#5 @#4: IMO the Feds are not interested in a 135 or 91 charter kerfuffle.

I suspect the illegality of an in-kind campaign contribution, however, would be of issue. In normal times. Which we are not in.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-05-22 17:39||   2021-05-22 17:39|| Front Page Top

#6 What a mendacious, nasty, hypocritical power-hungry cvnt
Posted by Black Charlie Cromoger8466 2021-05-22 22:24||   2021-05-22 22:24|| Front Page Top

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