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MAGATs, Your King is in Check

Gene Smith
4 min readFeb 6, 2019

MAGAts, your king is in check.

Since the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, the political division between Democrat and Republican has widened.

Cries of “make the White House white again” started the racial hatred. All of this is coming out the Republican Party.

For six of Obama’s eight years as President, the GOP controlled the House of Representatives. The right side of the aisle chose to adopt the strategy of endless investigating of Hillary Clinton and the four deaths of American citizens at the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi.

Compare this to the lack of outrage when thirteen Americans were killed in 54 embassy attacks during the George W. Bush administration.

Not one congressional hearing took place over the American lives lost during GWB’s term in office. Yet Republicans investigated Benghazi for over five years. Hillary Clinton testified for eleven hours, and no finding or evidence of wrongdoing ever materialized.

Not one.

This pattern repeated when the GOP King ascended to the throne as the 45th President of the United States.

Oversight of the King

Congressional oversight is oversight by the United States Congress over the Executive Branch…

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Gene Smith
Gene Smith

Written by Gene Smith

Juris Doctor, Retired Law Enforcement, contributor to The Ascent. Host of the podcast, “Hanging ith Uncle” #follow back followers

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