but apparently he decided to help himself year after year to basically the farm s bottom l e line. rerepeatedly took the retained earnings from the farm, basically took money out of the business year after year until it ultimately attracted the attention of republicans in congress who persuaded the department of justice to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the peanut farm to investigate if president carter was using it to hide some political slush fund because where was all that money going out of the business? yeah, it turns out there wasn t a slush fund. it was billy! billy was not a model employee of the peanut warehouse. but that was i mean, that was not exactly a scandal at that point given what everybody had come to learn about the president s beloved younger brother. and the republicans in congress convinced the justice department to spend six months and a ton of money trying to turn that into something, but that was how it ended. that was peanutgate, that was
the warehouse into the campaign pf eve . every nickel and every peanut have been traced into and out of the warehouse and no funds were every nickel and every peanut. they traced every single goober. republicans in 1979 spent six months and they hired a special prosecutor. they went out of their way to make sure it was a republican special prosecutor who they hired at the department of justice to just tear everything apart, go up and down through every peanut shell to try to find something, anything scandalous in jimmy carter s family peanut farm. it turned the out, as you saw there, that it was nothing. nothing this. when john f. kennedy had been elected to the presidency in 1960, he was from one of the richest families in the country. his father was one of the single wealthiest individuals in the entire united states. now, jfk himself never personally inherited his father s fortune, but he was
investigate if president carter was using it to hide some political slush fund because where was all that money going out of the business? yeah, it turns out there wasn t a slush fund. it was billy! billy was not a model employee of the peanut warehouse. but that was i mean, that was not exactly a scandal at that point given what everybody had come to learn about the president s beloved younger brother. and the republicans in congress convinced the justice department to spend six months and a ton of money trying to turn that into something, but that was how it ended. that was peanutgate, that was the big scandal. and that, in the modern era, is the closest we have ever come as a country to a presidential scandal involving the dispensation of the president s personal assets and personal finances during his time running for the presidency and being the president. that s as close to a scandal as we have ever come. and that was a pipsqueak s worth of presidential assets.
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happen? people have to see it and experience it before they have faith, to say the least. so was there real dialogue? yes. will that amount to something? we have to see some action to believe that. there s been a lot of controversy about his immigration proposals, not just in terms of the what he and his transition team say they ll do on day one, but what s going to happen as they try to force cities the like yours around the country to do their will? they say they re going to cut off all federal funds to any city in the country that says their local police force won t hand people over to the border patrol and won t act as part of a deportation force. how do you react to that let? the constitution doesn t create a national police force. it s local police forces and local schools and so on. we ll run our police as we see fit. we re not going to deport our own neighbors. look, there are some individuals who have done heinous crimes and