The Patriot Post® · Hillary's Hypocrisy

Hillary Clinton has been the recipient of massive amounts of money from billionaires and Fortune 500 CEOs. (She really is the candidate of the 1%.)

I guarantee you that all of her Fortune 500 CEO supporters have taken advantage of the normal, well-defined provisions of the tax code, provisions which she is now blasting Donald Trump for using. I guarantee you that they paid only the minimum amount of taxes they had to pay. If they have been in business any length of time, with its inevitable ups and downs, all of them have had years with no tax liability due to business losses.

Given Clinton’s raw condemnation of Trump’s legal use of the tax code, Hillary needs to be asked whether that condemnation extends to George Soros, Warren Buffett and her other corporate donors who are all in for crony capitalism.

Moreover, is Hillary suggesting that we should repeal the deduction for net operating losses, which affects about one million taxpayers a year? A lot of business owners and investors should be worried about the left’s latest line of attack.

Protests Continue

Another liberal Democrat disrespected our men and women in uniform last week. As you know, there has been a whole string of professional athletes, virtually all of them liberal Democrats, disrespecting the police. It has spread to city councils around the country where liberal Democrats are disrespecting the flag.

For the past three years, the New York Knicks basketball team has held a training camp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Last week, Joakim Noah, a Knicks center, declined an invitation to attend a dinner with West Point cadets. In fact, Noah was uncomfortable the entire time he was at West Point.

He told reporters, “It’s hard for me to understand why we have to go to war, why kids have to kill kids around the world. So I have mixed feelings about being here…”

West Point responded to Noah’s protest. In a statement the academy said: “The U.S. Military Academy at West Point develops leaders of character for the defense of our nation. We are disappointed and feel Mr. Noah’s choice of West Point to make a statement is inappropriate because of the great sacrifice that has originated from this institution over our nation’s history.”

In contrast, New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham went out of his way to shake hands with every man and woman in uniform who presented a giant American flag on the field at last night’s game against the Minnesota Vikings.

Beckham said afterwards, “For someone to sacrifice everything that they have for others — just the concept of it — it gives me chills… They sacrifice everything. It’s unselfish.”

In tonight’s debate, Tim Kaine should be asked whether he supports fellow liberal Democrats expressing their disrespect for our flag and the police. They have a right to protest. That’s not the question. Does the Clinton/Kaine ticket support the position they are taking or does it condemn it?