A strange video was suggested to me by YouTube the other day. Never been a huge George Carlin fan, but I watched about 5 minutes. I was amazed to hear how many legal issues Reagan's administration faced while he was in office. I don't have a strong recollection of that time period, but it sounded surprisingly similar to the struggles faced by a more recent administration...
Naturally, I decided to do a little Googling to see how past Democrat administrations matched up against the party of "Law and Order"!
https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...trump-reagan-/
Weird huh?
Naturally, I decided to do a little Googling to see how past Democrat administrations matched up against the party of "Law and Order"!
https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...trump-reagan-/
A Facebook post said that there have been 317 criminal indictments under three recent Republican presidents and only three under three recent Democratic presidents.
The claim is essentially on target for the Democratic presidents, but the comparison to the GOP presidents is overstated, because the numbers of Trump and Nixon administration indictments claimed are greatly exaggerated.
Even so, with a generous count, there were roughly 142 people indicted in the three GOP presidents — far less than 317, but far more than the two under the Democrats.
The claim is essentially on target for the Democratic presidents, but the comparison to the GOP presidents is overstated, because the numbers of Trump and Nixon administration indictments claimed are greatly exaggerated.
Even so, with a generous count, there were roughly 142 people indicted in the three GOP presidents — far less than 317, but far more than the two under the Democrats.
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